--- title: Big Businesses Want to Clean Up the Elections description: Why some in big business want campaign finance reform, why you should let your kids fail, hacking medical devices and more. canonical: https://time.com/4081038/big-business-clean-up-elections/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-21T16:01:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:01:12.147Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Big Businesses Want to Clean Up the Elections og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4081038/big-business-clean-up-elections/ 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: Big Businesses Want to Clean Up the Elections twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Big Businesses Want to Clean Up the Elections by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 21, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 21, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Even some surprising voices from big business want to stop crony capitalism in the U.S.**](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/21/even-corporate-america-wants-campaign-finance-reform-to-stop-crony-capitalism) By Zephyr Teachout in the Guardian **2\.** [**Let your kids fail. You’ll be doing them a favor.**](http://qz.com/527652/parents-let-your-kids-fail-youll-be-doing-them-a-favor/) By Jenny Anderson in Quartz **3\.** [**Why aren’t there better rules protecting medical devices from hackers?**](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-arent-there-better-cybersecurity-regulations-for-medical-devices) By J.M. Porup in Motherboard **4\.** [**Here’s what urban planners can learn from ants.**](http://www.uu.se/en/research/news/article/?id=5428) By Linda Koffmar at Uppsala University **5\.** [**Can classical music stay relevant?**](https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2015/october/1443621600/anna-goldsworthy/lost-art-listening) By Anna Goldsworthy in The Monthly  [_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/4081038/big-business-clean-up-elections/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4081038/big-business-clean-up-elections/"},"headline":"Big Businesses Want to Clean Up the Elections","datePublished":"2015-10-21T16:01:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:01:12.147Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4081038/big-business-clean-up-elections/","keywords":["Innovation","Infrastructure","Hacking","kids"],"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/4081038/big-business-clean-up-elections/","name":"Big Businesses Want to Clean Up the Elections"}}]}] ```