COVER STORY This issue:  NEXT Artists. Sabrina Carpenter. 25. Pop sensation. She may claim to be short and sweet, but never underestimate the mighty power behind Sabrina Carpenter’s talent. It’s the reason she has catapulted to her earned spot as one of today’s leading pop artists. She proves great things come in small packages. As a fellow 5-ft. female with a similar working-adolescent Disney history, I firsthand recognize and respect what it takes to maintain clarity while delivering within the demands of this business…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

Why you’re constantly baited by grifters—and more vulnerable than you think. Not long ago, Monica Cotelingham found herself stuffing cash into a Bitcoin machine at a gas station in suburban Maryland and weeping. Earlier that day, she had received a call from a phone number with the same area code as Cotelingham’s father in Louisiana. When she answered, someone identifying themselves as a U.S. customs officer said the government had found a package addressed to Cotelingham that contained stolen passports and driver’s licenses…

If you’re asked to share a few fun facts about yourself, you’re probably not going to rattle off your blood-pressure or cholesterol levels (even if your “good” cholestoral is, well, really good). But you should have a solid sense of what those numbers are, experts say. Why? “That old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is absolutely correct,” says Dr. Josh Septimus, an internal-medicine physician with Houston Methodist Hospital…