--- --- # The Paradox of Politicians Who Keep Their Promises by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 21, 2016 4:09 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 21, 2016 4:09 PM UTC **1\.** [**You can’t trust politicians, right? Wrong.**](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trust-us-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises/) By Timothy Hill in FiveThirtyEight **2\.** [**Schools are the next frontier for medical marijuana.**](http://mic.com/articles/141344/the-next-frontier-of-medical-marijuana-is-in-our-schools) By Jordyn Taylor in Mic **3\.** [**Empathy — though critical to our humanity — can consume us. Here’s how to care carefully.**](http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/how-to-avoid-empathy-burnout) By Jamil Zaki in Nautilus **4\.** [**These faceless moderators are defining the boundaries of your free speech.**](http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech) By Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly in the Verge **5\.** [**Look at what we’ve done to cows.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/21/look-at-what-weve-done-to-cows/) By Roberto A. Ferdman in the Washington Post  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ The Paradox of Politicians Who Keep Their Promises ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4303354/politicians-keep-promises/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4303354/politicians-keep-promises/"},"headline":"The Paradox of Politicians Who Keep Their Promises","datePublished":"2016-04-21T16:09:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:05.528Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4303354/politicians-keep-promises/","keywords":["Innovation","Marijuana","politics","Internet","Milk","empathy"],"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/4303354/politicians-keep-promises/","name":"The Paradox of Politicians Who Keep Their Promises"}}]}] ```