Editor’s Picks: June 7th 2019

<p>A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, the second half of humanity is <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/06/08/the-second-half-of-humanity-is-joining-the-internet" target="_blank">joining the internet</a>. Citizens of the emerging world will change the web and it will change them. Next, could the slaughter of pro-democracy protesters in Khartoum be <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2019/06/06/pro-democracy-protesters-are-slaughtered-in-khartoum" target="_blank">Sudan’s Tiananmen</a>? (7:43) And, why baseball reflects America’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/06/08/baseball-and-exceptionalism " target="_blank">desire to be different </a>(14:39)</p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>