--- title: The Founding Fathers Planned for Chaos in the House of Representatives description: The Founding Fathers planned for chaos in the House. Also, how AI can speed cancer cures, the fallibility of DNA evidence, and more. canonical: https://time.com/4069797/founding-fathers-house-of-representatives/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-12T16:01:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:18.052Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Founding Fathers Planned for Chaos in the House of Representatives og:description: These are today's best ideas. og:url: https://time.com/4069797/founding-fathers-house-of-representatives/ 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: The Founding Fathers Planned for Chaos in the House of Representatives twitter:description: These are today's best ideas. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Founding Fathers Planned for Chaos in the House of Representatives by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 12, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 12, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**It’s ok that the House of Representatives is in disarray. That’s what the Founder Fathers wanted.**](http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/10/12/disorder-in-the-house-just-as-the-founding-fathers-wanted-it/) By Joshua Spivak at Reuters Great Debate **2\.** [**Can artificial intelligence slash the time it takes to develop cancer medicine?**](http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/artificial-intelligence-cuts-cancer-drug-development-time-half-1523290) By Anthony Cuthbertson in the International Business Times **3\.** [**DNA evidence is far from infallible.**](http://www.npr.org/2015/10/09/447202433/-great-pause-among-forensic-scientists-as-dna-proves-fallible) By Martin Kaste at NPR **4\.** [**Nonprofit newspapers could work, but it wouldn’t be easy.**](http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/10/if-the-philadelphia-newspapers-wanted-to-convert-to-nonprofits-what-would-stand-in-their-way/) By Joseph Lichterman in NiemanLab **5\.** [**Even economists are wondering if free trade is still a good deal.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-07/free-trade-is-no-longer-a-no-brainer-for-economists) By Noah Smith in Bloomberg View  [_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/4069797/founding-fathers-house-of-representatives/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4069797/founding-fathers-house-of-representatives/"},"headline":"The Founding Fathers Planned for Chaos in the House of Representatives","datePublished":"2015-10-12T16:01:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:18.052Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4069797/founding-fathers-house-of-representatives/","keywords":["Innovation","Congress","Cancer","newspapers","TPP"],"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/4069797/founding-fathers-house-of-representatives/","name":"The Founding Fathers Planned for Chaos in the House of Representatives"}}]}] ```