March 8, 2017

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Voters go to the polls in four states, with Michigan the biggest prize for both parties.

Clinton voters like Obama more than Sanders supporters do, and other divisions.

Related: Clinton shilled for worldwide fracking as Secretary of State on behalf of industry interests.

If the GOP does split, it may be for only one or two election cycles, with Trump playing the role of Roosevelt.

Governmental overruse of the prefix “cyber” originated as a way for Pentagon contractors to get grants.

You don’t rise to the top of the intelligence community by asking whether “can” and “should” are always the same.

The amount of UN peacekeepers deployed around the world passes 100,000, an all-time high.

Putin has an 83 percent approval rating—support that’s enhanced by trumpeting on state-run television.

Complex Romanian land deal involves IKEA and Harvard, with old-growth forests sheltering corruption.

While clocking in, Amazon workers watch videos of co-workers getting busted for theft.

FCC to propose monthly broadband subsidy for the poor.

Study finds it costs $54,000 to be a gay man in England; women in tech in the US pay a tax of between $100,000 and $300,000.

Nike and other sponsors run from Maria Sharapova, sport’s highest paid woman, after she fails a drug test.

TMN’s Angela Chen on the science and ethics of tampering chemically with love and desire.

“Love” is the most commonly-occurring word in final statements written by death row inmates.

See also: “The First Time Texas Killed One of My Clients.”

Dead users on Facebook will surpass the living in 2098, says statistician.

Cults and eugenics in the weird history of Celestial Seasonings’ Sleepytime Tea.

Today’s lunchtime read: Mystery surrounds the birds—real and otherwise—used in The Maltese Falcon.

Today in the ToB, three writers from TV’s Bob’s Burgers weigh in on John Irving and Anne Tyler. #tob16

“You like … erotica?”  On bookstore creeps.