Grateful Dead
Harpers 2 Aug 2026

Grateful Dead

John Semley on the history of undertakers, the corporatization of funeral parlors, and communal grieving The post Grateful Dead appeared first on Harper's Magazine.

How to end the ‘Hormuz war’
Al Jazeera 2 Aug 2026

How to end the ‘Hormuz war’

The least bad option for the US is to let the MoU Article 5 play out. It is now clear the United States is sinking into the quagmire of its war with Iran with no clear idea of how…