Morning Must Reads: May 8

• Inside Putin’s East European spy campaign [TIME]
• “The main pro-Russian separatist groups in eastern Ukraine decided on Thursday to go ahead with a referendum on secession set for Sunday,defying an appeal from Russian President Vladimir Putin a day earlier to postpone the vote to facilitate dialogue with the government in Kiev.” [WSJ]
• Rep. Trey Gowdy: Benghazi needs deeper scrutiny [USA Today]
• Keystone, Inc: “Funded by multibillion-dollar oil companies, labor unions and ultrarich environmentalists, the fight has filtered into every crack and crevice of the nation’s capital — all for a project some advocates on both sides privately concede wouldn’t be an environmental or economic game-changer.” [Politico]
• Climate change is already here, but that won’t make Americans care [TIME]
• Florida finds itself in the eye of the storm on climate change [NYT]
• Janet Yellen: Economy improving, but housing a concern [Christian Science Monitor]
• The troubled search for Nigeria’s stolen girls [New Yorker]
• Black mobility belies U.S. civil rights hopes as milestone nears [Bloomberg]
• This former cocaine kingpin is lobbying Congress to let him keep his cheetahs (and liger ) [Mother Jones]
• Your broadband company may be holding your internet access hostage [TIME]

Prettier in print:

• Vladimir Putin’s War by Michael Crowley and Simon Shuster
• Hell and High Water by Michael Grunwald
• Jon Favreau’s Meals on Wheels by Isaac Guzman
• Kareem Abdul-Jabar: How to tell if you’re a racist like Donald Sterling

 

 

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