March 8, 2017

• 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.
• On bookstore creeps.