Editor’s Picks: July 6th 2020

A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, Joe Biden: Retro or radical? (9:34), the world is not experiencing a second wave of covid-19—it never got over the first (15:25), and a phoney referendum shows that Putin’s legitimacy is fading.   Please subscribe to The Economist for full access to print, digital and audio editions: www.economist.com/podcastoffer  

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