E.J. Dionne from the Washington Post joined to discuss last night’s townhall with Mike Pence and other D.C. headlines.

Then we opened the phone lines to check in on the Canadian wildfire smoke blanketing the North East. How are people coping with the air quality hazards?

Andrea Cabral explained George Santos’ mystery santos-bail.html">bail guarantors, the arraignment of Charlestown resident Matthew Nilo on serial rape charges, the possibility of new charges for President Trump and other legal headlines.

Steve Curwood hosts PRX’s Living on Earth. He joined us in advance of his conversation with David Leonard at the BPL to talk about climate change.

Carolyn Beeler from The World is currently stationed in Ukraine. She joined us from Kyiv via Zoom to talk about her work, what she’s seeing, and the environmental devastation that’s playing out as a byproduct of the war.

Economist Jon Gruber is back from sabbatical, a few weeks before he officially becomes chair of M.I.T’s department of economics. He offered his thoughts on the debt ceiling and why he thinks we need to do away with it. Plus, his shared a story of a monkey encounter from his time abroad.

We ended the show to hear from listeners about U.F.O.s. Do you believe in UFOs? And if you don’t, does the latest account from a former intelligence official have you thinking?