--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 27 description: Why Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen's rebels, the shattering of racial stereotypes in water sports, Facebook's play to own the news and more. canonical: https://time.com/3761430/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-27/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-27T16:01:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:50.017Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Why Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen's rebels, Facebook's play to own news & more og:url: https://time.com/3761430/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-27/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: Why Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen's rebels, Facebook's play to own news & more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 27 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 27, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 27, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Why did Saudi Arabia lead airstrikes on the rebels who’ve seized Yemen? The answer isn’t as clear as it seems.**](http://carnegieendowment.org/syriaincrisis/?fa=59500) By Frederic Wehrey at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace **2\.** [**Three black swimmers swept the 100-yard freestyle at the NCAA swim championships — and swept away a long-standing stereotype.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-26/black-swimmers-sweep-away-a-stereotype) By Kavitha Davidson in Bloomberg View **3\.** [**Could a Facebook deal to host news content make news brands obsolete?**](http://fusion.net/story/108799/how-facebook-could-kill-the-news-brand/) By Felix Salmon in Fusion **4\.** [**A new satellite study reveals the rapid breakdown of Antarctic ice. Low-lying nations should be worried.**](http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2015/03/antarctic-ice-shelf-thinning-is-accelerating-reveals-new-study/) By Robert McSweeney in the Carbon Brief **5\.** [**Here’s how reproductive health rights for women can help end poverty.**](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/about/blog/heres-how-reproductive-health-women-can-help-end-poverty) By Valerie Moyer in the Aspen Idea  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3761430/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-27/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3761430/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-27/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 27","datePublished":"2015-03-27T16:01:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:50.017Z","description":"Why Saudi Arabia attacked Yemen's rebels, the shattering of racial stereotypes in water sports, Facebook's play to own the news and more.","url":"https://time.com/3761430/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-27/","keywords":["Innovation","women","Iran","olympics","reproductive rights","climate change","global warming","facebook","Race","News","Saudi Arabia","Yemen","rebels","satellites","swimming","antarctica","airstrikes"],"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/3761430/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-27/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 27"}}]}] ```