--- title: The Drone Policy We Need description: Making drone warfare accountable, taking #BlackLivesMatter from hashtag to movement and more. canonical: https://time.com/4250918/drone-policy-obama/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-08T17:01:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:17.981Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Drone Policy We Need og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4250918/drone-policy-obama/ 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 Drone Policy We Need 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 Drone Policy We Need by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 8, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 8, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Before the end of his term, here’s what President Obama should do to our drone war.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/opinion/limit-the-next-presidents-power-to-wage-drone-warfare.html) By Jameel Jaffer and Brett Max Kaufman in the New York Times **2\.** [**BlackLivesMatter went from hashtag to movement. Here’s how.**](http://www.cmsimpact.org/blmreport) By Deen Freelon, Charlton D. McIlwain, and Meredith D. Clark at the AU Center for Media and Social Impact **3\.** [**The very idea of sharing has been hijacked.**](https://medium.com/@impossible/sharing-has-been-hijacked-b8d90c7cf55b#.2s6nhxqp0) By Lily Cole and Adam Werbach in Medium **4\.** [**Here’s how to fight food poisoning outbreaks with machine learning and social media.**](http://www.nsf.gov/news/news%5Fsumm.jsp?cntn%5Fid=137848) By the National Science Foundation **5\.** [**The media is missing the story behind the global rise of women.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-mosle/womens-issues-are-more-th%5Fb%5F9407762.html) By Anne Mosle and Peggy Clark in Huffington Post  [_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/4250918/drone-policy-obama/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4250918/drone-policy-obama/"},"headline":"The Drone Policy We Need","datePublished":"2016-03-08T17:01:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:17.981Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4250918/drone-policy-obama/","keywords":["Innovation","women","Drones","sharing economy","#BlackLivesMatter"],"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/4250918/drone-policy-obama/","name":"The Drone Policy We Need"}}]}] ```