--- description: President Obama should expand AmeriCorps, Journalists adjust to the Internet, and Tesla's latest move to build a cost-competitive electric car. title: These are Today's Best Ideas image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52ce99571ef9a785/6986a1a4169ab0a88b27afa5/teacher_dv1940073.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [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: September 2 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 2, 2014 4:01 PM CUT  Teacher Standing in Front of a Class of Raised Hands Teacher Standing in Front of a Class of Raised HandsDigital Vision.—Getty Images by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 2, 2014 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**As we approach the 20th anniversary of AmeriCorps, President Obama should make good on his promise to expand this vital program.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/opinion/sunday/broken-promises-on-national-service.html "undefined") By the Editorial Board of the New York Times **2\.** [**Journalists still believe they’re writing for the same old reasons, but the data shows they’re chasing clicks, changing the nature of their work.**](http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/08/when-it-comes-to-chasing-clicks-journalists-say-one-thing-but-feel-pressure-to-do-another/ "undefined") By Angèle Christin at the Nieman Journalism Lab **3\.** [**A dangerous new trend of policing faculty speech at American universities is threatening academic freedom.**](http://chronicle.com/article/Dont-Speak-Out-The-Message/148393/ "undefined") By David M. Perry in the Chronicle of Higher Education **4\.** [**“Infoladies” bring digital services – from filling online forms to collecting health data – to the people of Bangladesh, and could be expanded to serve many more.**](http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/08/bring-change-rural-bangladesh-201482714349581533.html "undefined") By Syed Tashfin Chowdhury in Al Jazeera English **5\.** [**The new batteries coming from Tesla’s “Gigafactory” should remove the final barrier to mass-produced electric cars.**](http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/08/20/tesla-motors-incs-gigafactory-may-be-more-revoluti.aspx "undefined") By Daniel Sparks in The Motley Fool  [_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/3256730/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-2/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3256730/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-2/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 2","datePublished":"2014-09-02T16:01:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:43:04.594Z","description":"President Obama should expand AmeriCorps, Journalists adjust to the Internet, and Tesla's latest move to build a cost-competitive electric car.","url":"https://time.com/3256730/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-2/","keywords":["Innovation","women","Internet","College","Technology","Obama","Bangladesh","Journalism","digital","Tesla","University"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52ce99571ef9a785/6986a1a4169ab0a88b27afa5/teacher_dv1940073.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt52ce99571ef9a785/6986a1a4169ab0a88b27afa5/teacher_dv1940073.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"dv1940073","caption":"dv1940073","creditText":"Digital Vision.—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/3256730/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-2/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 2"}}]}] ```