COVER STORY this issue: A fairy tale for the 21st century.  It was a royal wedding with a 21st century twist.  Some 150,000 well-wishers descended upon the riverside town of Windsor for the big day, hoping to spot Hollywood celebrities walking into the church or catch a glimpse of Meghan Markle’s dress before she made her way down the aisle to meet her prince.  Millions around the world cheered along as they watched the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex share a tender kiss on the steps of St. George’s Chapel … To understand the world we live in, read TIME.

As Israel gets its way with Washington, Gazans mobilize despair.  It is possible, in theory that the parallel events of May 14 might affect the sympathies of Americans watching them unfold on the split screens of cable news channels.  In Jerusalem, the ceremonial opening of the new U.S. Embassy proceeded at a stately pace, President Trump’s daughter Ivanka unveiling a plaque that announced not only the new address for U.S. representation in Israel but also a new, snugger alignment with the host nation.  A few miles away, cameras captured the chaos as Israeli soldiers methodically cut down some 2,700 Palestinians, 60 fatally, as they marched toward the fence …

The headquarters of Boundless Mind looks as if it were created by a set designer to satisfy a cultural cliché.  The tech startup is run out of a one-car garage a few blocks from California’s Venice Beach.  On the morning I visited, in March, it was populated by a dozen screens–phones, tablets, monitors–and half as many 20-something engineers, all of whom were male and bearded, and one of whom wore a cowboy hat.  Someone had written in blue marker across the top of a whiteboard in all caps: YOU’RE BUILDING AMAZING SH-T.  But that, more or less, is where the Silicon Valley stereotypes end.  Ramsay Brown, 29, and T. Dalton Combs, 32 , the co-founders of Boundless Mind, are hardly the college …