time.comWomen Pandemic ANDTHEMARCH 15 / MARCH 22, 2021 DOUBLE ISSUE Lauren Martinez, with her family in Cape Coral, Fla., is suing her former employer, claiming she was fi red after she sought to work from home to care for her kidsTHE FIGHT FOR WORKING MOTHERS byEliana DocktermanTHE HUMAN ST ANDARD Adjusts the temperature before you even realize you’re cold. Seven different massage settings to give you one moment of peace. Gives you more than a glimpse—prepares you for what’s ahead. ENGINEERED TO A HIGHER ST ANDARD CLIMA TE CONCIERGE SHIA TSU MASSAGE HEAD-UP DISPLA YOptions shown. ©2020 Lexuslexus.com/LS | #LexusLSTHE NEW LS—THE GREATEST EXPRESSION OF LEXUS2 Time  March 15/March 22, 2021TIME (ISSN 0040-781X) is published bi-weekly (except for last week of December) by TIME USA, LLC. PRINCIPAL OFFICE: 3 Bryant Park, New York, NY 10036. Periodicals postage paid at New York, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send all UAA to CFS ( See DMM 50 7 . 1.5.2 ) ; Non-Postal and Military Facilities: Send address corrections to Time Magazine , PO BOX 3 7 508 Boone , IA 5003 7 -0508. Canada Post Publications Mail Agreement # 40069223. BN# 704925882RT0001. © 2021 TIME USA, LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SUBSCRIPTIONS: For 24/7 service, please use our website: www.time.com/myaccount. You can also call 1-800-843-8463 or write Time Magazine PO Box 37508 Boone, IA 50037-0508. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is strictly prohibited. Your bank may provide updates to the card information we have on file. You may opt out of this service at any time. uuuuuuu VOL. 197, NOS. 9–10 | 2021 4 | Conversation 8 | For the Record The Brief News from the U.S. and around the world 11 | Making the vaccines vigilant 14 | Who’s afraid of Saudi Arabia? 17 | Milestones: Lawrence Ferlinghetti 20 | At-home bakeries 22 | A ski town stays open 24 | Fitness: back to basics 26 | TIME With . . . Belarus’ Svetlana Tikhanovskaya 28 | Myanmar protests The View Ideas, opinion, innovations 31 | Representative Marie Newman and Evie Newman on the case for the Equality Act 34 | Ian Bremmer on the woes of a Turkish strongman 34 | A chat with Kazuo Ishiguro 36 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’s favorite collars 38 | Weather- proofing infrastructureTime Off What to watch, read, see and do 107 | Britney in retrospect: postfeminist pop culture revisited 110 | Books: the reads of March 112 | Movies: Barb and Star and the rise of the instant cult classic 115 | Music: the Grammys struggle for relevance 116 | 7 Questions for Minari director Lee Isaac ChungFeatures Homegrown Threats Can Joe Biden curb surging right-wing extremism? By Vera Bergengruen and W.J. Hennigan 40 Missed Shots Vaccinations skip those the virus hits hardest By Janell Ross 46 A League of Her Own Marlins GM Kim Ng makes history By Sean Gregory 52 Justice Delayed The mess COVID-19 has made of criminal courts By Melissa Chan 60 Women and the Pandemic Isolation, despair and fortitude By Jaquira Díaz 64 Forced to choose between kids and work By Eliana Dockterman 70 A sisterhood of mothers By Jasmine Aguilera 78 The rise of India’s protesting women farmers By Nilanjana Bhowmick 84 Ceyenne Doroshow on doing housing right By Cady Lang 92 New ways to put food on the table By Mariah Espada and Abby Vesoulis 94 Taking on domestic violence in Russia By Madeline Roache 100△ A migrant fleeing El Salvador shelters with her young kids at the San Juan Apóstol facility in Juárez, Mexico Photograph by Meridith Kohut for TIMEON THE COVERS: Photograph by Mary Beth Koeth for TIME Photograph by Naima Green for TIME Photograph by Meridith Kohut for TIME Photograph by Nanna Heitmann— Magnum Photos for TIME Photograph by Kanishka Sonthalia for TIMEST. LOUIS 1:45 PM AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, RESEARCH IS HAPPENING. As the force uni