--- --- # 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._ Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 23 ```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"}}]}] ```