Coming up on today's show:

• BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith and Darren Samuelsohn, senior White House reporter at POLITICO, talk about the latest in national news, and take your calls.
• Democrat Shelley Mayer and Republican Julie Killian discuss their campaigns for NYS Senate 37th district (Westchester).
• George Yancy, Emory University philosophy professor and the author of Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018), talks about the response to his 2015 column for The New York Times' The Stone entitled, "Dear White America" and the racist vitriol it elicited and asks where we go from here.
• Hanya Yanagihara, writer and editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine and author of A Little Life (Anchor, reprint edition, 2016), reflects on how three years in the early 1980s -- from early 1981 until late 1983 -- shaped and changed the culture of New York -- and the world.