--- --- # How to Get the House of Representatives Working Again by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 7, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 7, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s a way to get the House of Representatives working again: Make it much bigger.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/03/why-we-might-want-to-grow-the-house-of-representatives-by-250-more-seats/) By Keith Humphreys in the Washington Post **2\.** [**Could we bring back the people we love with artificial intelligence?**](http://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot) By Casey Newton in the Verge **3\.** [**A good sense of humor actually is the secret to a longer life.**](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/laugh-lots-live-longer/) By Tori Rodriguez in Scientific American **4\.** [**The Paris climate deal went into force this week. Here’s how to make good on its promise.**](http://time.com/4519690/paris-climate-deal-promise/) By Carter Roberts and Ray Offenheiser in Time **5\.** [**Millions of votes don’t get counted every presidential election. This is how to fix America’s lousy ballots.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/10/designing-a-better-ballot/502898/) By Adrienne LaFrance in the Atlantic  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ How to Get the House of Representatives Working Again ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4522697/how-to-get-the-house-of-representatives-working-again/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4522697/how-to-get-the-house-of-representatives-working-again/"},"headline":"How to Get the House of Representatives Working Again","datePublished":"2016-10-07T16:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:26.515Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4522697/how-to-get-the-house-of-representatives-working-again/","keywords":["2016 Election topic","Innovation","Government","Humor","AI"],"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":"https://time.com/4522697/how-to-get-the-house-of-representatives-working-again/","name":"How to Get the House of Representatives Working Again"}}]}] ```