--- description: 1. After the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, the world must push a political solution to the Ukraine crisis or risk it becoming much... title: These Are the Five 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 18 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 18, 2014 4:13 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 18, 2014 4:13 PM CUT **1\.** [**After the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, the world must push a political solution to the Ukraine crisis or risk it becoming much more dangerous.**](http://carnegie.ru/eurasiaoutlook/?fa=56194 "undefined") By Dmitri Trenin at the Carnegie Moscow Center **2\.** [**We can’t disown the children at our border.**](http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/07/14/how-a-little-known-1996-act-set-the-stage-for-the-child-migrant-crisis/ "undefined") By Jim Gaines at the Reuters Great Debate **3\.** [**We should let failing arts organizations die.**](https://medium.com/@devonvsmith/we-should-allow-failing-arts-organizations-to-die-20c05e78afb9 "undefined") By Devon Smith in Medium **4\.** [**Amazon Web Services deal with the CIA could revolutionize intelligence work.**](http://www.govexec.com/magazine/features/2014/07/daring-deal/88207/ "undefined") By Frank Konkel in Government Executive **5\.** [**A Cold War lesson: Challenging the status quo in Iran as we did decades ago with the USSR.**](http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/24418/cold%5Fwar%5Flesson%5Ffor%5Firan.html "undefined") By Nicholas Burns in the Boston Globe  [_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/3005445/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-18/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3005445/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-18/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 18","datePublished":"2014-07-18T16:13:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:08.670Z","description":"1. After the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, the world must push a political solution to the Ukraine crisis or risk it becoming much...","url":"https://time.com/3005445/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-18/","keywords":["Innovation","Ukraine","Arts","CIA","#MH17","Malaysia Airlines Flight 17"],"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/3005445/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-18/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 18"}}]}] ```