--- --- # What Happens After Assad by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 27, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 27, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Assad might be on his way out. But things will get worse before they get better.**](http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/04/26/is-assad-on-his-way-out/) By Walter Russell Mead in the American Interest **2\.** [**You could rent a Tesla battery to power your house during a blackout.**](http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/25/tesla-battery-home-elon-musk) By Benjamin Preston in the Guardian **3\.** [**It’s really going to happen: A Greek exit from the Euro is almost inevitable.**](http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21649466-greek-exit-euro-may-soon-become-inevitable-gredge) By the Economist **4\.** [**Inmates are having burner phones and marijuana delivered by drones.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/us/drones-smuggle-contraband-over-prison-walls.html) By Michael S. Schmidt in the New York Times **5\.** [**Can we reinvent elite education at half the cost?**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/harvard-stanford-minerva-next-elite-university-half-price-selingo) By Jeff Selingo at LinkedIn  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ What Happens After Assad ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3836454/what-happens-after-assad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3836454/what-happens-after-assad/"},"headline":"What Happens After Assad","datePublished":"2015-04-27T16:01:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:22.548Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3836454/what-happens-after-assad/","keywords":["Innovation","College","Syria","Greece","Drones","Prison","Tesla","euro","battery","cost","assad"],"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/3836454/what-happens-after-assad/","name":"What Happens After Assad"}}]}] ```