--- description: 1. Political corruption is a scourge and should be punished. Why not make these crooked politicians serve the public interest and help track down other... title: Here Are the 5 Best Ideas of the Day image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 10 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 10, 2014 4:16 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 10, 2014 4:16 PM CUT 1\. [**Political corruption is a scourge and should be punished. Why not make these crooked politicians serve the public interest and help track down other lawbreakers?**](http://time.com/2972507/ray-nagin-new-orleans-corruption/ "undefined") By Walter Isaacson in TIME 2\. [**With urban farming, Cleveland Crops energizes people with disabilities.**](http://civileats.com/2014/06/04/cleveland-crops-training-people-with-disabilities-to-farm/ "undefined") By Hannah Wallace in Civil Eats 3\. [**Fertilizing the oceans: How feeding iron to plankton could help move the needle on global warming.**](http://aeon.co/magazine/nature-and-cosmos/can-tiny-plankton-help-reverse-climate-change/ "undefined") By David Biello in Aeon 4\. [**The gas tax can’t solve America’s transportation funding problem. Oregon’s pay-per-mile program just might.**](http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2014/07/hey-congress-oregon-has-your-long-term-highway-funding-solution-right-here/374139/ "undefined") By Eric Jaffe in Citylab 5\. [**Today’s 20-somethings have the lowest median income since 1970\. To jumpstart that generation, we need to talk about wages.**](http://qz.com/230425/millenials-dont-need-your-condescension-they-need-higher-wages/ "undefined") By Derek Thompson in Quartz  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2973431/five-best-ideas-july-10/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2973431/five-best-ideas-july-10/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 10","datePublished":"2014-07-10T16:16:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:09.010Z","description":"1. Political corruption is a scourge and should be punished. Why not make these crooked politicians serve the public interest and help track down other...","url":"https://time.com/2973431/five-best-ideas-july-10/","keywords":["Innovation","corruption","Gas"],"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/2973431/five-best-ideas-july-10/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 10"}}]}] ```