--- description: States are using data to fix prisons, and so should the fed. gov. Plus our last chance to save Ukraine, & reexamining the idea of "public.” 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 25 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 25, 2014 4:10 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 25, 2014 4:10 PM CUT **1\.** [**Reinventing Justice: Seventeen states are fixing prisons by using data-driven sentencing practices and focusing on keeping the most dangerous prisoners behind bars. The federal government should follow their lead.**](http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/904631-Lessons-from-the-States-Responsible-Prison-Reform.pdf "undefined") By Nancy La Vigne, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations **2\.** [**Social media has permanently altered our control over what we say and do. We need a new definition of “public.”**](https://medium.com/message/what-is-public-f33b16d780f9 "undefined") By Anil Dash in The Message, a curated collection on Medium **3\.** [**This might be the world’s last chance to rescue Ukraine.**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-the-west-doesnt-do-more-for-ukraine-now-it-might-soon-be-too-late/2014/07/24/6f9f9c5e-1357-11e4-98ee-daea85133bc9%5Fstory.html?tid=pm%5Fopinions%5Fpop "undefined") By the editors of the Washington Post **4\.** [**Water as a weapon: the next escalation in modern warfare.**](http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/water-war-weapon-syria-cities "undefined") By Sarah Goodyear at Next City **5\.** [**Work local: Reimagining offices to work more like neighborhoods.**](http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/07/design-offices-to-be-more-like-neighborhoods/ "undefined") By Max Chopovsky in Harvard Business Review  [_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/3034139/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-25/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3034139/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-25/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 25","datePublished":"2014-07-25T16:10:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:08.053Z","description":"States are using data to fix prisons, and so should the fed. gov. Plus our last chance to save Ukraine, & reexamining the idea of \"public.”","url":"https://time.com/3034139/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-25/","keywords":["Innovation","Ukraine","Water","Prison"],"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/3034139/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-july-25/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: July 25"}}]}] ```