--- title: We Should Reboot Guantanamo Bay for Scientific Diplomacy description: Rebooting Gitmo as a research-diplomacy hub, why the GOP could regret opposing a new SCOTUS nominee and more. canonical: https://time.com/4264120/reboot-guantanamo-bay-scientific-diplomacy/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-18T16:01:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:15.345Z article:section: Ideas og:title: We Should Reboot Guantanamo Bay for Scientific Diplomacy og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4264120/reboot-guantanamo-bay-scientific-diplomacy/ 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: We Should Reboot Guantanamo Bay for Scientific Diplomacy twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # We Should Reboot Guantanamo Bay for Scientific Diplomacy by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 18, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 18, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Reboot Guantanamo Bay as a home for U.S.-Cuba research diplomacy.**](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6279/1258.full) By Joe Roman and James Kraska in Science **2\.** [**The GOP might regret its stand against President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Here’s why.**](http://time.com/4262720/goldsmith-gop-block-garland/) By Jack Goldsmith in Time **3\.** [**The world has too many ships.**](http://qz.com/641855/the-world-has-too-many-ships/) By Matt Phillips at Quartz **4\.** [**In education, sometimes ‘throwing money at the problem’ works.**](http://equitablegrowth.org/throwing-money-at-the-problem-may-actually-work-in-education/) By Bridget Ansel at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth **5\.** [**Here’s how drones could save lives in the fight against HIV in Africa.**](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35810153) By Karen Allen in BBC 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/4264120/reboot-guantanamo-bay-scientific-diplomacy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4264120/reboot-guantanamo-bay-scientific-diplomacy/"},"headline":"We Should Reboot Guantanamo Bay for Scientific Diplomacy","datePublished":"2016-03-18T16:01:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:15.345Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4264120/reboot-guantanamo-bay-scientific-diplomacy/","keywords":["Innovation","Supreme Court","Education","Guantánamo Bay","Drones","HIV","Shipping"],"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/4264120/reboot-guantanamo-bay-scientific-diplomacy/","name":"We Should Reboot Guantanamo Bay for Scientific Diplomacy"}}]}] ```