--- title: Puerto Rico is America's very own Greece description: How Puerto Rico is our very own Greece, terrorists competing with violence, political innovation courtesy of the Supreme Court and more. canonical: https://time.com/3944498/americas-very-own-greece/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-02T16:00:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:40.944Z article:section: Ideas og:title: America’s Very Own Greece og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3944498/americas-very-own-greece/ 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: America’s Very Own Greece twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # America’s Very Own Greece by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 2, 2015 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 2, 2015 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Puerto Rico is America’s very own Greece.**](http://fusion.net/story/159325/the-tragedy-of-puerto-rico-americas-very-own-greece/) By Felix Salmon in Fusion **2\.** [**What’s behind the bloody surge in violent extremism? Competition.**](http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/07/01/why-terrorists-become-more-violent/) By Justin Conrad and Kevin Greene in Political Violence at a Glance **3\.** [**With one decision, the Supreme Court opened the door to political innovation. The next part will be harder.**](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/0701/How-Supreme-Court-ruling-could-jump-start-political-innovation) By Francine Kiefer in the Christian Science Monitor **4\.** [**The next nuclear accident is closer than you think.**](http://thebulletin.org/how-next-us-nuclear-accident-could-happen8441) By Hugh Gusterson in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists **5\.** [**Upgrading America’s communications infrastructure wasn’t important until Google did it.**](http://www.technologyreview.com/review/538411/the-wait-for-google-to-do-it-strategy/) By James Surowiecki in MIT Technology Review  [_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/3944498/americas-very-own-greece/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3944498/americas-very-own-greece/"},"headline":"America’s Very Own Greece","datePublished":"2015-07-02T16:00:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:40.944Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3944498/americas-very-own-greece/","keywords":["Innovation","Supreme Court","ISIS","FCC","Puerto Rico"],"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/3944498/americas-very-own-greece/","name":"America’s Very Own Greece"}}]}] ```