--- --- # Why We Should Make Military Aid Transparent by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 17, 2016 4:28 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 17, 2016 4:28 PM UTC **1\.** [**Let’s make U.S. military aid transparent. Then we can see if it’s working.**](http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/international/272004-time-for-transparency-in-overseas-military-aid-and-financing) By Rachel Kleinfeld in the Hill **2\.** [**Meetings need a shot clock.**](https://hbr.org/2016/03/meetings-need-a-shot-clock) By Bob Frisch and Cary Greene in the Harvard Business Review **3\.** [**We can redesign high school for immigrant children.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/03/designing-a-high-school-for-immigrant-kids/471981/) By Dan Reed in the Atlantic **4\.** [**America’s next great growth stock? Marijuana.**](http://www.businessinsider.com/marijuana-projected-to-be-a-44-billion-economy-by-2020-2016-3) By Matthew Nitch Smith in Business Insider **5\.** [**Get rid of coffee pods.**](http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2016/03/hamburg-says-nein-to-coffee-pods/473682/) By Aarian Marshall in CityLab  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Why We Should Make Military Aid Transparent ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4262877/military-aid-transparent/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4262877/military-aid-transparent/"},"headline":"Why We Should Make Military Aid Transparent","datePublished":"2016-03-17T16:28:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:15.598Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4262877/military-aid-transparent/","keywords":["Innovation","Marijuana","Education","Coffee","Meetings"],"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/4262877/military-aid-transparent/","name":"Why We Should Make Military Aid Transparent"}}]}] ```