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DOES EVERYBODY WANT TO BE A KAT? • Sophia Laforteza, Yoonchae Jeung, Daniela Avanzini, Megan Skiendiel, and Lara Raj are ready for world domination—and to talk about Manon Bannerman, who’s on hiatus from their global girl group. DANIELA TIJERINA tags along as Katseye rocks Coachella

INDEPENDENT WOMEN: A GIRL GROUP TIMELINE

THERAPYSPEAK • Please respect HILLARY BUSIS’s boundaries by keeping your psychobabble to yourself

YOU BETCHA • DANTE has been the go to mystic for Hollywood A-listers for over 40 years. So JULIA BLACK put him up against the oracle of our times: prediction markets. In the battle of clairvoyance vs. capital, who really knows what’s going to happen?

CONFERENCE CALLING • Vacation? How six-figure salary of you! The world’s true 0.0001 percent spend their out-of-office time at various invite-only camps, retreats, and summits, where they rub their Brunello Cucinelli–lined elbows with other members of the global elite (and probably decide humanity’s future in the process). As ELISE TAYLOR shows, we’re not saying the Illuminati are real, but if they are, they’re headquartered at one of the below

GIFTS OF THE NILE • Forget those dusty old bandages: King Tutankhamun’s treasures have found a new home at the Grand Egyptian Museum. Elsewhere, he has been immortalized in high jewelry, made from sparkling rubies, emeralds, sapphires, diamonds, and onyx. DAISY SHAW-ELLIS traces the roots of Van Cleef & Arpels’s latest homage to the Land of the Pharaohs

GETTING HANDSY • MARISA MELTZER says it’s time to put down the filler, grab the retinol lotion

BOOKED AND BUSY FOR THE SUMMER

TOE TO TOE • Two editors put their best feet forward in a heated debate about summer’s most controversial shoe

The Next Black President • Kamala Harris’s quest for the White House was rooted in a political tradition pioneered by black women. In the wake of Gaza, the broad promise of that tradition proved too much for her to bear. As the question of another run looms, TA-NEHISI COATES reckons with the implicit violence of the American presidency—and the conditions under which a black woman might ever hold that office

Sculptor With a Scalpel • Garth Fisher has made an art of his medicine, crafting new bodies and faces for some of the wealthiest and most famous people in the world. EVE PEYSER talks to Hollywood’s most sought-after surgeon—live from the OR

THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL • As a member of the K-pop mega–girl group Blackpink, Lisa—just Lisa—has become one of the biggest stars worldwide, even if you haven’t heard of her. Her standout debut in The White Lotus has already propelled her to new heights in the US. Now, as she embarks on a sold-out Las Vegas residency and has more acting roles on the horizon, is she ready for a full-blown crossover? JOSÉ CRIALES-UNZUETA talks to the global pop star about this pivotal point in her career

THE FORGOTTEN WAR • As the world trains its attention on Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and elsewhere, veteran war correspondent JANINE DI GIOVANNI and photographer LYNSEY ADDARIO travel to South Sudan to document the human rights crisis unfolding as the region plunges, once again, into civil war. Drone strikes have flattened villages, 14 million people have been displaced, and the estimated death toll is unthinkable—in the hundreds of thousands since the most recent cycle of violence began. But the conflict has taken on global stakes,...