Coming up on today's show:

• New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-35) responds to the governor's State of the State/Budget address and talks about legislative priorities for the new term.

• Sheila Oliver, lieutenant governor of New Jersey and commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs, recaps Governor Phil Murphy's State of the State address.

•  Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker who writes the weekly online column, "Letter from Trump’s Washington", discusses the latest political headlines, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's meetings in the Middle East and William Barr's Senate confirmation hearing as Attorney General.

• Alex Lichtenstein, editor of American Historical Review, and Cristobal Salinas Jr., Florida Atlantic University professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology, discuss the lack of diversity in academic publishing and how it reinforces racism in academia and society.