COVER STORY This issue:  Dua Lipa. Ringmaster. She moves with a lightness in a heavy world—bold, playful, and self-aware, She is thoughtfully outspoken for the oppressed and displaced. She founded an influential editorial platform, Service95, to cover cultural topics and address humanitarian concerns. She believes in family, is grateful to her parents and supportive of her siblings…To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

How Tech companies joined forces with Zelensky’s government to turn Ukraine’s battlefields into a testing ground for military AI. Early in the morning of June 1, 2022, Alex Karp, the CEO of the data-analytics firm Palantir Technologies, crossed the border between Poland and Ukraine on foot, with five colleagues in tow. A pair of beaten-up Toyota Land Cruisers awaited on the other side. Chauffeured by armed guards, they sped down empty high-ways toward Kyiv, past bombed-out buildings damaged by artillery, the remnants of burned trucks…

Americans have long been known for our industry and ambition, but until recently, we also recognized the value of rest. The Puritans had a famously strict work ethic, but they also took their Sundays very seriously. In 1842, Henry David Thoreau observed, “The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure”, a decade later he wrote, “A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book.”Post-Civil War captains of industry didn’t rise and grind, according to business journalist Bertie Charles Forbes…