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# March 15, 2021 | Vol. 197 No. 9 March 15, 2021 |  

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Vol. 197 No. 9

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Issue name

March 15th, 2021 | Vol. 197, No. 9 | U.S.

Issue date

March 15, 2021

Location

U.S., North America, South America

Related categories

[Society](/vault/subject/society/)

[Gender](/vault/subject/gender/)

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## Table of Contents

BusinessEntertainmentHealthIdeasPoliticsSportsU.S.World

### Business

[Business](/section/business/)

### These Mothers Wanted to Care for Their Kids and Keep Their Jobs. Now They're Suing After Being Fired.

[Business](/section/business/)

### How Home Bakers Have Found Sweet Success During the Pandemic

### Entertainment

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### From Britney to Buffy, We're Suddenly Rethinking Postfeminist Pop Culture—and Nothing Could Be Healthier

Whether you attribute them to a 20-year nostalgia cycle, a new wave of feminism or both, these blasts from the recent past add up to a larger reckoning with how pop culture treated women a generation ago

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### Here Are the 14 New Books You Should Read in March

[Entertainment](/section/entertainment/)

### 'We Have the Same Pain and the Same Joy.' _Minari_ Director Lee Isaac Chung on the Universality of His Golden-Globe Winning Film

On growing up in Arkansas and the recent Golden Globes controversy

### Health

[Health](/section/health/)

### The Pandemic Has Spurred a Return to Low-Cost Fitness Activities

The pandemic has spurred a return to low-cost fitness activities

### Ideas

[Ideas](/section/ideas/)

### I Avoided Facing My Mental Illness for Decades. The Pandemic Changed That.

### Politics

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### 'They’re Fighting Blind.' Inside the Biden Administration's Uphill Battle Against Far-Right Extremism

The Biden Administration has vowed to defeat far-right extremism. It just needs to figure out how

[Politics](/section/politics/)

### How the Texas Winter Storm Disaster Will Shape Joe Biden's Climate Agenda

Democrats are already using the disaster to illustrate the need for new legislation while many Republicans have relied on old talking points

### Sports

[Sports](/section/sports/)

### How Kim Ng, Major League Baseball's First Female GM, Finally Got the Top Job

Despite glowing qualifications, Ng was passed over for GM jobs at least ten times. An in-depth look at her barrier-breaking journey. 

### U.S.

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### 'This Is Not a Shelter:' Ceyenne Doroshow on Providing Free, Safe Space for LGBTQ People in Need

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### 'I Want This Over:' For Victims and the Accused, Justice Is Delayed as COVID-19 Snarls Courts

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### What America's Richest Ski Town's Handling of COVID-19 Says About the Country

[U.S.](/section/us/)

### When a Texas County Tried to Ensure Racial Equity in COVID-19 Vaccinations, It Didn't Go as Planned

Texas threatened to slash Dallas County's vaccine doses if it prioritized vaccines for the mostly Black and Latino people in medically vulnerable zip codes 

### World

[World](/section/world/)

### Here's Why the U.S. Didn't Sanction Mohammed bin Salman for His Role in the Jamal Khashoggi Killing


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