Table of contents for March 28, 2022 in TIME Magazine

HOW DO YOU TELL THE STORY OF A WAR? Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, all of us have been grappling with the constant flood of images and messages coming into our homes and onto our screens, with what feels like unprecedented immediacy. The world has been captivated by the extraordinary resilience of Ukraine’s people and the unspeakable tragedies they are enduring. This week, the war came home to TIME, with the death of Brent Renaud, an award-winning 50-year-old filmmaker who was killed by Russian fire in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin on March 13. Brent had been working on a TIME Studios documentary about the global refugee crisis. That crisis now counts among its numbers the 3 million refugees fleeing Ukraine. Brent’s loss is devastating…

ON MARCH 8, IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, TIME hosted an event to celebrate the publication of its Women of the Year issue at Spago in Beverly Hills, Calif. Attendees included labor activist Dolores Huerta, actor Isla Fisher, and Ayo Tometi, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. Panelists discussed a range of issues affecting women in the workplace. Katie Couric interviewed actor Kerry Washington about the impact of her show Scandal and the Anita Hill biopic Confirmation, while NAACP president Sherrilyn Ifill talked about what gives her hope for gender equality. Olympic track star Allyson Felix spoke about maternal health, stating, “We have to advocate for our own health. There’s so much implicit bias in the medical field. We need to change that and listen to and…

I STUDIED ANTHROPOLOGY IN COLLEGE, AND WAS living with an Indigenous tribe in Costa Rica when I realized I wished I had a camera. At the time, my big brother Brent had fallen in love with documentary film and was interning at Jon Alpert’s Downtown Community Television Center. Before long, I’d moved from Oregon to Brent’s New York apartment, sleeping on a lawn chair until it broke. Then I moved to the couch. We worked with Alpert for years and, after 9/11, often in conflict zones. Neither of us was chasing adrenaline. Our projects were always driven by characters, people who did not have a voice and found themselves in extreme situations. We worked in Haiti, in Juárez, and in a Chicago high school for kids who had been kicked…

During the 1960s and ’70s, it took a dozen years for a toxic cocktail of excessive fiscal stimulus, misguided monetary policy focused on symptoms rather than causes, and bad luck on the supply side to generate stagflation (a mix of high inflation and a stagnant economy) to develop. Stagflation and political dysfunction corroded trust in government and brought down the presidencies of Ford and Carter. History has sped up over time, and in a little more than a year, policy errors like those of the 1960s and ’70s, along with bad luck, have brought the U.S. to the brink of stagflation. Income support payments to households and businesses in 2021 far exceeded any reasonable estimate of income reductions that resulted from COVID-19. The Federal Reserve, in ways reminiscent of the…

IN THE SECONDS BEFORE IMPACT, MORTARS whistle as they fall, making a loud and almost plaintive sound Maxim Dondyuk will never forget. He will not forget the sting of their shrapnel, which felt like a hot knife in his arm, or the sight of the women and children he photographed during the shelling near Kyiv on March 6. He hopes the people who see his photos will not be able to forget them either. “I don’t stay here and do this because I am a masochist,” Dondyuk, who is Ukrainian, says by phone from the center of Kyiv. “I do it because sometimes a photo can change people, change societies.” With luck, he says, it might help stop a war. When this war started in late February, Dondyuk was in…

In Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday, Jane (Odessa Young), a young housemaid in 1924 England, uses her day off for a secret assignation with Paul (Josh O’Connor), a toff from a neighboring estate who’s engaged to be married to a class-appropriate beauty. Paul’s house is empty: the servants are off visiting their mothers for the holiday; his parents are at a luncheon; and his brothers are dead, killed in the war. His heart is still heavy, and in bed with Jane, he finds respite from his melancholy. Though Jane loves him, their class differences don’t make her needy or vulnerable. In one of the film’s most remarkable scenes, she pads alone, naked and self-assured, through Paul’s large, drafty house, examining paintings, furniture, the books in the library, before heading to…

IN 2017, WHEN FILM AND TV AGENT Theresa Kang-Lowe read Min Jin Lee’s epic novel Pachinko, which tells the story of a poor Korean family through generations and across borders, she feared it didn’t stand a chance of receiving Hollywood’s attention. “I thought it was an impossibility,” she says. “This was pre–Crazy Rich Asians, pre-Parasite, pre–Squid Game. We had never seen something like this in series form.” Five years later, on March 25, the first season of Pachinko—for which Kang-Lowe serves as an executive producer—will arrive on Apple TV+ in a vastly different landscape. Television shows from around the world, including South Korea’s Squid Game, the Paris-set Lupin, and the U.S.-Mexico drama Narcos: Mexico, have found rabid audiences on Netflix. These shows have proved that contrary to decades of conventional…

Since Russia’s invasion began, dozens of Ukraine’s 7.5 million children have been killed and thousands of others have left in search of safety. Among those thousands is 5-year-old Valeriia from Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown in central Ukraine. Her image—a smiling child, literally supported by her fellow Ukrainians—appears on one of this issue’s covers. If you met Valeriia, you might think she’s shy, her mother Taisiia told TIME, but don’t be fooled; at home, she commands attention. She loves the same things as many little girls—her stuffed bunny; her Elsa doll from Cold Heart (which English speakers know as Frozen); and her pink backpack, which she had to leave behind as she fled her country. Valeriia also has big dreams: in particular, starting her first year of school…

27,000  Estimated number of mail ballots in Texas’ March 1 primary that were flagged for rejection amid new voting restrictions in the state, the AP reported March 9 ‘I hope that every single victim’s face haunts your every waking moment and your sleeping ones too.’ Ryan Hampton, one of more than two dozen speakers at a virtual hearing March 10, in which Americans affected by the opioid crisis confronted members of the Sackler family, owners of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma 6  Number of passengers on the next Blue Origin spaceflight, scheduled to take off on March 23; SNL star Pete Davidson is among the crew ‘Today’s ruling leaves us devastated, but it will not deter us in our fight for climate justice.’ Anjali Sharma, one of eight teenagers who on…

EMILIO DELGADO, WHO DIED March 10 at the age of 81, played Luis, the Fix-It Shop owner on Sesame Street for more than four decades. A child of the ’60s and an actor happy to have a job, he could not have realized the impact he would have, especially on Latino children. My nephew, who is now in his 50s, told me that as a little boy, he wanted to grow up and become a man like Luis. How wonderful that Emilio’s strength, warmth, and kindness were attractive enough for children to want to emulate. Sesame Street always wanted the human cast members to be themselves, and in allowing Emilio to be himself they hit the jackpot. In 1988, my character (Maria) and Luis had a widely watched onscreen wedding.…

IKE GAZARYAN ATTRIBUTED THE FIRST few abusive calls to his San Diego restaurant, which serves food from former Soviet republics, to kids messing around. But then, in the week after Russia invaded Ukraine, the threats seemed to get more worrisome. “We started getting more serious calls, with people yelling and screaming at us,” says Gazaryan, who is ethnically Armenian but has lived in Russia. “As if we have something to do with this war, blaming us for what the Putin regime is doing.” Since the start of the Russian invasion, some people have directed their ire toward anything they deem to be associated with Russia or its people. In some cases, these protests have seemed harmless, or even silly—for instance, the European Tree of the Year contest eliminated Russian trees…

ON THE DAY THAT RUSSIA LAUNCHED ITS FULL-SCALE invasion of Ukraine, Henrikas Savickis was preparing to open a new play. An actor at the National Theater in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, the 51-year-old was caught up in dress rehearsals, but still managed to squeeze in a small contribution to the fight against Russia. After logging on to a private Facebook group seemingly devoted to Yorkshire puppies, he took up his weapon of choice: the keyboard. The Yorkshire puppies are a cover for a large, informal community of Lithuanian citizens who, for the past eight years, have been engaged in an ongoing battle against the Russian disinformation that regularly floods Lithuanian media, social and otherwise. They number in the thousands, and although most keep their identities secret, they include bartenders,…

AS TRAGIC AS THINGS ALREADY are in Ukraine, they will likely get even worse in the days and weeks to come. Vladimir Putin deserves every bit of punishment this war may exact on him, on the battlefield, and on Russia’s economy. But the people of Ukraine do not, nor do most of the Russian people. We should therefore not be content with a U.S.-Western policy that simply imposes pain on Putin for pain’s sake, since it may do little to mitigate the consequences of this conflict. The current sanctions should serve as part of a strategy that pursues the least bad possible outcome to this needless war. Although the war appears to be zero-sum in nature, based on Putin’s aims and the Ukrainian people’s refusal to accept de facto Russian…

FOR WESTERN HISTORIANS, THE NEWS OF DEMOCRATICALLY minded volunteers from other countries enlisting to fight with the Ukrainians against their Russian invaders might bring to mind the creation of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. But there may be some Asian resonances too. I am thinking in particular of the remarkable but sadly forgotten story of the British and American fighters for India’s freedom. From the late 19th century onward, a series of exemplary individuals disavowed their citizenship of powerful white imperialist nations to live with and struggle alongside the subordinated peoples of the Indian subcontinent. In India itself, these rebels against the Raj are only dimly remembered, mostly through landmarks that carry their names. When, back in 1995, two nativist parties came to power in the state of…

The world first saw Mirard Joseph on one of the worst days of his life. On Sept. 19, 2021, he came to embody the plight of thousands of Haitian migrants after an image taken that day of his attempt to escape a U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agent on horseback in Del Rio, Texas, spread across the internet and was broadcast on every major news network. While Joseph ran, clinging to plastic bags filled with food, the agent wrenched his shirt. The horse’s rein seemed to coil like a whip. The image, captured by New Mexico– and Texas-based photojournalist Paul Ratje, stoked national debate over migration at the U.S.-Mexico border, enduring racism in American institutions, and the unique experience that Black immigrants face. Joseph, along with his wife Madeleine Prospere and…

MODERNA, WHICH MAKES ONE OF THE two mRNA vaccines that have changed the COVID-19 pandemic, is the first company to decide not to enforce its patent on the shot. The Massachusetts-based biotech said it would never invoke its vaccine patent in 92 low- and middle-income countries that are receiving COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX, a global project to procure and distribute the shots to nations in need. But leaders at the World Health Organization (WHO) say the patent isn’t the only problem in ensuring equitable access to vaccine technology. “It’s been obvious to us for a long time, but really driven home by COVID-19, that we need to expand our ability and capacity to produce pandemic vaccines in low- and middle-income countries and regions,” says Dr. Martin Friede, coordinator of…

NATALIA GAVRILITA KNOWS SHE’S IN A TIGHT spot. It is after all the job of Moldova’s Prime Minister to project an air of control, an easy calm, the sense that everything will work out fine. But the humanitarian fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is fraying the seams of her nation, Europe’s poorest by some metrics. So as we wrap up our interview, chatting before her nation’s tricolor flag, she double-checks herself. “Perhaps I should have been stronger on the need for help,” she muses aloud. “Because we need green corridors [taking refugees to third countries], we need assistance, we need expertise, we need help to deal with economic concerns. We are small, and so panic can quickly unbalance the economy.” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has sent…

DETERRENCE IS WORKING IN THE UKRAINE CRISIS, just not for the right side. In this tragedy’s most catastrophic blunder, the U.S. and its allies failed to deter Russia from invading. President Joe Biden’s plan to create deterrence relied almost exclusively on threats that would be executed only after Russian forces crossed Ukraine’s borders. Unfortunately, the West’s credibility in threatening after-the-fact punishments was shredded by its earlier failures to impose stringent sanctions following the Kremlin’s assaults on Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014. Even beyond this yawning credibility gap, Biden’s total deterrence package was palpably inadequate. Most seriously, he said in early December 2021, and repeatedly thereafter, that U.S. military force was off the table. This was an unforced, unilateral concession, with no Russian reciprocity sought or given. Biden could…

GROWING UP, I NEVER KEPT A DIARY. THERE WERE NO journals hidden beneath my twin mattress, no spiral-bound collection of ruffled notebooks stuffed with private confidences. I was a voracious reader who devoured books in secret, in defiance of my strict evangelical parents, but when it came to my personal feelings, I allowed nothing of myself to migrate onto the page. Writing felt treacherous, a way to accidentally reveal too much. The few times that I did manage to pen any of my feelings, I immediately shredded everything, crumpled papers stuffed at the bottom of the garbage can, hidden beneath scraps of the previous night’s dinner. Those scribblings were too unruly, I thought at the time, unwilling to let any of it live outside the privacy of my head. Regardless,…

IT TAKES A LOT TO FAZE MARLEINE BASTIEN. After growing up under the brutal dictatorship of François Duvalier, she left Port-au-Prince for Miami in 1981. The 62-year-old thought she had seen it all in her four decades working with the city’s Haitian community as a social worker—until now. Every day feels like a new low in the yellow stucco building that houses her advocacy organization in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood. “It’s like the community is suffering from a collective trauma,” she says. “We have members coming in and telling us, ‘I cannot sleep; I cannot stand even watching the news.’” Families already struggling under financial strains are setting aside money in case relatives in Haiti are kidnapped and need to pay ransom. “I never heard that before,” she says. The…

AMY SCHUMER IS RECLAIMING THE SPOTLIGHT. The rare female comedian to land on Hollywood’s A-list, she dominated the mid-2010s with the groundbreaking sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, a string of hit movies, and a best-selling memoir. Yet the past few years have been relatively quiet for Schumer, as the self-deprecating feminist comedy that fueled her rise has become ubiquitous enough to feel tame. Can she recapture the zeitgeist? One big test will be her Oscars co-hosting gig on March 27. But first, she’ll unveil Life & Beth, a Hulu dramedy that she created, stars in, and helped write and direct. The show’s premise, like its title, is both indistinct and somewhat trite. Fast approaching 40, Schumer’s Beth has managed to create a pretty nice life for herself. She works at…

THE PLEASURES OF WRITER-DIRECTOR Graham Moore’s intimate little crime thriller The Outfit sneak up on you with the same glissando shiver that you feel when you slip on a silk-lined coat. Much of the story unfolds between lines of dialogue, in furtive glances between characters, or in clever feats of magician-like misdirection. The movie’s star, Mark Rylance—as Leonard Burling, a skilled but humble English tailor—is adept at actorly sleight of hand, gradually revealing his character’s secrets in slivers of dry, wicked wit. It’s 1956 Chicago, where the Savile Row–trained Leonard now runs his own shop, making fine suits for a clientele heavy on high-ranking gangsters. Though Leonard allows his workspace to be used as a sort of message center for the mob, he keeps his head down and his nose…