NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about the challenge of giving a response to the State of the Union address.
The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus has called for Governor Ralph Northam's resignation. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with delegate Lamont Bagby, who heads the caucus.
It's the year of women in Nevada. On Monday, the state becomes the first to have a legislature where women outnumber men. The state's supreme court also has a majority of women.
"I do not believe that I am either of the people in the photo," Gov. Northam said of the image, which shows two individuals, one dressed in blackface, and another as a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
After a page from Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's yearbook was published online, Shermichael Singleton, a republican political consultant, tells NPR's Scott Simon that Northam has to go.
In Venezuela, opposition leader Juan Guaido has called for nationwide protests aimed at ousting President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro is asking his supporters to come out in counterprotest.
Democrats and Republicans have called for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign. NPR's Michel Martin talks to political analysts Larry Sabato and Andra Gillespie about the political forces at play.