--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 23 description: Take a map-driven tour of the border crisis’s roots, see how racist sports team names hurt native youth, and see how data can stop disease. canonical: https://time.com/3023491/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-23/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-23T16:08:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:43:08.298Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are the Five Best Ideas of the Day og:description: Take a map-powered tour of the real roots of the border crisis, explore how racist sports team names hurt native youth, and see how big data can stop the spread of disease og:url: https://time.com/3023491/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-23/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are the Five Best Ideas of the Day twitter:description: Take a map-powered tour of the real roots of the border crisis, explore how racist sports team names hurt native youth, and see how big data can stop the spread of disease twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 23 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 23, 2014 4:08 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 23, 2014 4:08 PM UTC **1\.** [**The border isn’t the problem: A detailed, map-powered breakdown of the real story behind this immigration crisis.**](http://wilsonquarterly.com/stories/interactive-map-undocumented-unaccompanied-and-underage/) By Zack Stanton in the Wilson Quarterly **2\.** [**With campaign finance rules in chaos, major corporations are setting a new standard with voluntary disclosures of political donations.**](http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/07/18/corporate-america-may-have-the-answer-for-dark-money-transparency) By Bruce F. Freed and Karl J. Sandstrom in U.S. News and World Report **3\.** [**It’s not about political correctness. Racist sports team names harm Native American youth.**](http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/report/2014/07/22/94214/missing-the-point/) By Erik Stegman and Victoria Phillips at the Center for American Progress **4\.** [**A simple move – replacing individual state bar exams with the Uniform Bar Exam – can bring much-needed reform to the legal profession.**](http://www.slate.com/articles/news%5Fand%5Fpolitics/jurisprudence/2014/07/the%5Funiform%5Fbar%5Fexam%5For%5Fube%5Fcould%5Fsave%5Fthe%5Flegal%5Fprofession%5Fgo%5Ftake%5Fit.html) By Baron YoungSmith in Slate **5\.** [**Computer modeling and big data are new weapons against disease-carrying insects.**](http://www.psmag.com/navigation/nature-and-technology/big-data-helping-kill-biting-insects-spread-disease-86265/) By John Upton in Pacific Standard  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3023491/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-23/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3023491/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-23/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 23","datePublished":"2014-07-23T16:08:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:08.298Z","description":"Take a map-driven tour of the border crisis’s roots, see how racist sports team names hurt native youth, and see how data can stop disease.","url":"https://time.com/3023491/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-23/","keywords":["Innovation","Immigration","Campaign Finance","border crisis"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3023491/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-23/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 23"}}]}] ```