--- --- # Why America's Highways Are Less Safe by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 19, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 19, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**America’s highways are getting less safe, and Congress is to blame.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/congress-made-trucking-deadlier%5Fus%5F56fd6f92e4b0a06d58052ee8?gka3m4mxrm8wipb9%3F) By Michael McAuliff in the Huffington Post **2\.** [**Can a combination social network and matchmaking site help diagnose and cure rare diseases?**](http://nautil.us/blog/matchmaking-algorithms-are-unraveling-the-causes-of-rare-genetic-diseases) By Regan Penaluna in Nautilus **3\.** [**The gaps in science education for American kids start showing in kindergarten. Here’s how to close them.**](https://theconversation.com/heres-why-kids-fall-behind-in-science-56785) By Paul Morgan in the Conversation **4\.** [**Getting the Chibok girls home is one thing. Knowing what to do with them once they get there is another.**](http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-17/getting-chibok-girls-home-one-thing-knowing-what-do-them-once-they-get-there) By Kierran Petersen at PRI’s the World **5\.** [**Why our peer review system is a toothless watchdog.**](https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/14/peer-review-watchdog/) By Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus in Stat News  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Why America's Highways Are Less Safe ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4298716/congress-highways-less-safe/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4298716/congress-highways-less-safe/"},"headline":"Why America's Highways Are Less Safe","datePublished":"2016-04-19T16:01:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:06.238Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4298716/congress-highways-less-safe/","keywords":["Innovation","medicine","Education","Boko Haram","diseases"],"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/4298716/congress-highways-less-safe/","name":"Why America's Highways Are Less Safe"}}]}] ```