--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 15 description: 1. With the $3 billion annual cost of fighting piracy at sea, we could invest in economic and infrastructure development on the Somali coast to... canonical: https://time.com/2988120/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-15/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-15T18:47:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:43:08.884Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are the 5 Best Ideas of the Day og:description: From financial aid to ISIS og:url: https://time.com/2988120/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-15/ 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 5 Best Ideas of the Day twitter:description: From financial aid to ISIS twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 15 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 15, 2014 6:47 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 15, 2014 6:47 PM UTC **1\.** [**With the $3 billion annual cost of fighting piracy at sea, we could invest in economic and infrastructure development on the Somali coast to take down piracy’s root causes.**](http://theconversation.com/want-to-stop-somali-piracy-build-better-roads-29062) By Anja Shortland and Federico Varese in The Conversation **2\.** [**Simply by letting students understand their financial aid picture earlier, we can improve college access and post-secondary options for low-income students.**](http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/improving-college-accessibility-with-a-simple-reform-20140711) By Fawn Johnson in National Journal **3\.** [**The story of ISIS, which has seemed to be all about religion and military developments, is actually mostly about politics: access to government revenue and services, a say in decision-making, and a modicum of social justice.**](http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/aug/14/iraq-illusions/) By Jessica Tuchman Mathews in the New York Review of Books **4\.** [**Giving a supercomputer “life after retirement” means investing in the future of technology in Africa.**](https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/news/feature-stories/2014/ranger-begins-new-life-in-africa) By Jorge Salazar at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, UT-Austin **5\.** [**Europe has a role – and a responsibility – to stay engaged as the U.S. ‘rebalances’ toward China.**](http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/joseph-s--nye-believes-that-europe-must-fulfill-some-key-responsibilities-vis-a-vis-a-rising-china) By Joseph S. Nye in Project Syndicate  [_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/2988120/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-15/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2988120/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-15/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 15","datePublished":"2014-07-15T18:47:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:08.884Z","description":"1. With the $3 billion annual cost of fighting piracy at sea, we could invest in economic and infrastructure development on the Somali coast to...","url":"https://time.com/2988120/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-15/","keywords":["Innovation","College","ISIS","Piracy","financial aid"],"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/2988120/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-15/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 15"}}]}] ```