--- --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 17 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 17, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 17, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Is it time for the Jews to leave Europe?**](http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/03/is-it-time-for-the-jews-to-leave-europe/386279/) By Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic **2\.** [**The divorce rate is falling. Here’s why that’s bad news for some Americans.**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/03/10/the-divorce-rate-is-falling-heres-why-thats-bad-news-for-some-americans/?hpid=z3) By Sharadha Bain in the Washington Post **3\.** [**Across the planet, cost and class determine who lives and who dies.**](http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n03/paul-farmer/who-lives-and-who-dies) By Paul Farmer in the London Review of Books **4\.** [**The U.S. should consider joining — rather than containing — the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.**](http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2015/03/16/the-aiib-debacle-what-washington-should-do-now/) By Elizabeth C. Economy in Asia Unbound **5\.** [**Trade unions in Cleveland will launch a “pre-apprentice” program to prepare high school kids for construction jobs.**](http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/03/construction%5Funions%5Fwill%5Fteach.html) By Patrick O’Donnell in the Cleveland Plain Dealer  [_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: March 17 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3747319/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-17/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3747319/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-17/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 17","datePublished":"2015-03-17T16:01:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:02.379Z","description":"The future of European Jewry, how cost and class determines who gets to live, giving up on containing China's development bank and more.","url":"https://time.com/3747319/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-17/","keywords":["Innovation","France","India","Divorce","europe","Israel","China","jews","Unions","Spain","Insurance","Muslims","Islam","Cleveland","Charlie Hebdo"],"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/3747319/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-17/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 17"}}]}] ```