--- description: Closing the racial employment gap, protecting trafficking victims at our border, building better tools for confidential sources and more. 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: August 11 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 11, 2014 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 11, 2014 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Increasing access to education is the best way to close the employment gap between black and white males in America.**](https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/yicare/pages/141/attachments/original/1403804069/Closing%5Fthe%5FRace%5FGap%5FNtnl%5F6.25.14.pdf?1403804069 "undefined") By Rory O’Sullivan, Konrad Mugglestone and Tom Allison in Young Invicibles **2\.** [**New tools are making secure communication with journalists – and whistleblowing – possible.**](http://www.cjr.org/behind%5Fthe%5Fnews/is%5Fcommunications%5Fsecurity%5Ffor.php "undefined") By Sarah Laskow in Columbia Journalism Review **3\.** [**Disconnect: Americans have long believed stopping genocide was a core interest for our nation. They’re wrong.**](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/08/09/the%5Fbig%5Flie%5Fgenocide%5FObama%5FIraq%5FYazidi "undefined") By Dhruva Jaishankar in Foreign Policy **4\.** [**America should use our law protecting victims of human trafficking to manage the border crisis and grant asylum for migrant children.**](http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci%5F26300360/give-border-kids-asylum "undefined") By Kathy Bougher in the Denver Post **5\.** [**Gamify the Environment: Instead of a binding global treaty on climate change, let’s make it a “race to the top” competition among nations.**](http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a%5Fblueprint%5Fto%5Fend%5Fparalysis%5Fover%5Fglobal%5Faction%5Fon%5Fclimate/2766/ "undefined") By Timothy Wirth and Tom Daschle in Yale Environment 360  [_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/3101011/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-11/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3101011/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-11/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 11","datePublished":"2014-08-11T16:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:06.575Z","description":"Closing the racial employment gap, protecting trafficking victims at our border, building better tools for confidential sources and more.","url":"https://time.com/3101011/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-11/","keywords":["Innovation","Environment","climate","Education","Journalism","genocide","trafficking"],"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/3101011/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-august-11/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: August 11"}}]}] ```