--- title: Here's Why Going Negative in Politics Works description: Why going negative works, how Intel got war out of its supply chain, the truth about our southern border and more. canonical: https://time.com/4178699/why-negative-politics-works/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-13T17:01:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:36.259Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Here's Why Going Negative in Politics Works og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4178699/why-negative-politics-works/ 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: Here's Why Going Negative in Politics Works twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's Why Going Negative in Politics Works by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 13, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 13, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s why going negative in politics works so well.**](http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/five-studies-the-political-power-of-going-negative) By Julia Azari in Pacific Standard **2\.** [**Don’t believe the hype. Our southern border is secure.**](http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/issues-2016-americas-southern-border-secure-8369.html) By Jacob L. Vigdor at the Manhattan Institute **3\.** [**How Intel eliminated war from its supply chain.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/intel-conflict-free-minerals%5F569520e5e4b05b3245da6ea7?) By Alexander C. Kaufman in the Huffington Post **4\.** [**Could psychotherapists ‘reclaim’ LSD?**](http://mosaicscience.com/story/psychedelic-therapy) By Sam Wong in Mosaic Science **5\.** [**Scientists used nanotech to soup up a traditional light bulb so it’s more efficient than an LED.**](http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanophotonic-incandescent-light-bulbs-0111) By David L. Chandler at MIT News  [_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/4178699/why-negative-politics-works/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4178699/why-negative-politics-works/"},"headline":"Here's Why Going Negative in Politics Works","datePublished":"2016-01-13T17:01:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:36.259Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4178699/why-negative-politics-works/","keywords":["Innovation","politics","Mexico","Mobile","LSD","trump"],"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/4178699/why-negative-politics-works/","name":"Here's Why Going Negative in Politics Works"}}]}] ```