--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 15 description: Our "security psychosis," making college worth it, how kids learn to use white lies, regulating Bitcoin's path to success and more. canonical: https://time.com/3822881/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-15/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-15T16:01:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:33.401Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: America's "security psychosis," making college worth it, and more og:url: https://time.com/3822881/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-15/ 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: America's "security psychosis," making college worth it, and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 15 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 15, 2015 4:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 15, 2015 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**The U.S. is safer than we’ve been in generations. So why do we see threats around every corner?**](http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2015/04/11/have-seen-enemies-and-they-weak/Cho9J5Bf9jxIkHKIZvnVTJ/story.html# "undefined") By Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe **2\.** [**Is college worth it? There’s a checklist for that.**](http://www.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/182312/college-worth-depends.aspx "undefined") By Brandon Busteed at Gallup **3\.** [**Life is teaching your kid the value of white lies.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/04/when-kids-learn-lying-can-be-kind.html "undefined") By Melissa Dahl in the Science of Us **4\.** [**The secret to success for unregulated currencies like Bitcoin might be more regulation.**](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cryptocurrency-exchanges-emerge-as-regulators-try-to-keep-up/ "undefined") By Larry Greenemeier in Scientific American **5\.** [**Scotland’s new drunk-driving law works so well, it’s hurting their economy.**](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scotlands-new-drinkdriving-law-is-so-successful-its-damaging-the-economy-according-to-bank-of-scotland-report-10173764.html "undefined") By Chris Green in the Independent  [_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/3822881/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-15/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3822881/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-15/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 15","datePublished":"2015-04-15T16:01:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:33.401Z","description":"Our \"security psychosis,\" making college worth it, how kids learn to use white lies, regulating Bitcoin's path to success and more.","url":"https://time.com/3822881/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-15/","keywords":["Innovation","Iran","College","Bitcoin","kids","ISIS","Security","Drunk-driving","value","safety","lying","Regulation","Scotland topic"],"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/3822881/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-april-15/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 15"}}]}] ```