Plus, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joins us to talk about a number of issues, including infrastructure, her efforts to abolish the death penalty, and the ongoing situation in Haiti.

We take listener calls with Renee Graham, a Boston Globe columnist and a WBUR contributor, and Tom Nichols, a professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and a contributing writer at The Atlantic.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley joins us to talk about a number of issues, including infrastructure, her efforts to abolish the death penalty, and the ongoing situation in Haiti.

Massachusetts has the third-largest Haitian community in the country — almost 86,000 people. How can we support our neighbors as they process the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse?

We speak with former state representative Geoff Diehl, running in the Republican primary for governor.

Plus, what we can expect when Tropical Storm Elsa rolls through, and a conversation with former state rep. Geoff Diehl on his run for governor.

Tropical storm warnings have already been issued for much of Eastern Massachusetts, as we await the arrival of Tropical Storm Elsa. The state's first tropical storm of the season rolls through just as Boston logged its wettest first week of July in over a century. We get the latest from WBUR meteorologist David Epstein.

After winning a regional gold medal in the NAACP Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics, recent high school graduate Julie Canuto-Depina will represent the Brockton chapter of the NAACP in the national competition this week.

Biologists from around the Northeast - and as far south as Georgia - are on a mission to vaccinate the Cape's raccoon population against rabies. This, after a raccoon tested positive for rabies in Hyannis in May. It was the first case of non-bat rabies detected in that region in eight years.

We also talk to Professor Ibram X. Kendi about his new podcast "Be Antiracist." Plus, two Cape Cod Rabies Task Force members join us to talk about a new vaccination effort in Massachusetts.