Dan asks a question that everyone who has ever signed up for military service has likely asked: was it worth it? His answer is worth reading. 

TWE’s annual essay about the United States’ commanders-in-chief.

The annual summer entertainment recommendations from The World Next Week podcast.

With the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 this past Saturday, we share resources that readers flagged for us or that we otherwise missed about that day and its consequences

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.