Where Does The Death Of Al-Baghdadi Fit Within Trump’s Ongoing Syria Saga?
President Donald Trump praised the killing of ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi this weekend in northern Syria, holding it up as a significant foreign policy achievement. However, some reports have indicated that the success comes not because of, but in spite of, his actions in the region, including the much-criticized removal of American troops that left Kurdish allies in the lurch.

To discuss all this and more, Jim Braude was joined by New York Times national security correspondent David Sanger, who is also a senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Is The Vaping Ban Stopping Teens? And: Debating The Public Health Impact Of Gov. Baker’s Vaping Ban
The first-in-the-country ban on the sale of all vape products will continue for at least another two months, after a state judge denied industry appeals to strike down the ban. But the ruling wasn't a total win for the Baker administration, which was forced to formally submit the ban as an emergency regulation in order to continue restricting nicotine vaping products. The governor has argued the products should remain off store shelves in Massachusetts while health officials figure out the cause of vape-related lung illnesses that have sickened more than 1,600 people and killed 34 nationwide. The deaths and the ban come amid what health officials are calling a teen vaping epidemic. So is any of this stopping teens from vaping? Stephanie Leydon reports.

Meanwhile, the debate about the right decision from a public health perspective has been going on ever since Governor Baker's announcement last month. Following Stephanie Leydon's report, Jim Braude was joined by Shaleen Title, who believes the ban actually makes the vaping problem worse by driving people to the illicit market or back to cigarettes; and Dr. Sharon Levy, a pediatrician who directs the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program at Boston Children's Hospital, who believes the ban is the right move to protect consumers, particularly young people.

IMHO: How Unfair Scheduling Factor Into Economic & Racial Inequality
Jim Braude shares his thoughts on how last-minute scheduling notices and an unpredictable work week fall the hardest on women of color working in the retail and food service sectors.