--- description: Our responsibility to help Liberia, ethnically diversifying medical research, coaches’ role against domestic abuse, the reputation economy, and more. title: These Are Today's Best Ideas 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: September 24 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 24, 2014 4:14 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 24, 2014 4:14 PM CUT **1\.** [**Because of America’s unique relationship with Liberia, we have an obligation to help fight the Ebola outbreak there.**](http://www.slate.com/articles/news%5Fand%5Fpolitics/history/2014/09/ebola%5Fin%5Fliberia%5Famerica%5Fowes%5Fthe%5Fwest%5Fafrican%5Fnation%5Ffounded%5Fby%5Ffree%5Fblacks.html "undefined") By James Ciment in Slate **2\.** [**Medical research often doesn’t account for different ethnicities, and underrepresented groups suffer.**](http://www.nature.com/news/medical-research-missing-patients-1.15909 "undefined") By Estaban G. Burchard in Nature **3\.** [**One way to head off sexual violence in professional sports: start with high school coaches.**](http://www.vox.com/2014/9/23/6831641/domestic-violence-sexual-assault-nfl-violence-against-women "undefined") By Libby Nelson in Vox **4\.** [**Beyond the sharing economy: Is “reputation” the next important currency?**](http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/23/opinion/in-trust-reputation-currency/index.html?hpt=op%5Ft1 "undefined") By Heather Schlegel on CNN **5\.** [**Powerful protests over climate change target corporations – and new leadership is needed to restore faith in capitalism.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judith-samuelson/a-rough-week-for-capitali%5Fb%5F5868916.html "undefined") By Judith Samuelson in the Huffington Post  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 24 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3425764/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-24/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3425764/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-24/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 24","datePublished":"2014-09-24T16:14:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:41.069Z","description":"Our responsibility to help Liberia, ethnically diversifying medical research, coaches’ role against domestic abuse, the reputation economy, and more.","url":"https://time.com/3425764/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-24/","keywords":["Innovation","women","medicine","Sports topic","climate change","Race","violence","NFL","Airbnb","Research","Domestic Abuse","United States","UN","Uber","Lyft","Capitalism","ebola","Liberia","Corporations"],"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/3425764/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-24/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 24"}}]}] ```