--- title: Looking for a Permanent Home for the Olympics description: Moving the Olympics — permanently, how to kill the death penalty, why to not spy on your kids and more. canonical: https://time.com/4387665/home-for-the-olympics/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-29T16:00:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:49.426Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Looking for a Permanent Home for the Olympics og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4387665/home-for-the-olympics/ 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: Looking for a Permanent Home for the Olympics twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Looking for a Permanent Home for the Olympics by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 29, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 29, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Should the Olympics move back to Athens permanently?**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lnZvITa5to) By Bob Costas at the Aspen Ideas Festival **2\.** [**The free market is slowly ending the death penalty.**](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2016/0625/Arizona-runs-out-of-lethal-injection-drugs-Is-this-how-the-death-penalty-dies) By Patrik Jonsson in the Christian Science Monitor **3\.** [**Don’t spy on your kids.**](http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/parents-kids-social-media-vidcon/) By Audra Schroeder in the Daily Dot **4\.** [**How one Virginia town is making an opportunity out of sea-level rise.**](http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-27/how-one-virginia-city-re-framing-sea-level-rise-opportunity) By Carolyn Beeler at PRI’s the World **5\.** [**Can science diplomacy ease tensions in the Middle East?**](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/06/27-science-diplomacy-stem-middle-east-hajjar) By David P. Hajjar in Markaz  [_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/4387665/home-for-the-olympics/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4387665/home-for-the-olympics/"},"headline":"Looking for a Permanent Home for the Olympics","datePublished":"2016-06-29T16:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:49.426Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4387665/home-for-the-olympics/","keywords":["Innovation","Parenting","olympics","climate change","Middle East","Death Penalty"],"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/4387665/home-for-the-olympics/","name":"Looking for a Permanent Home for the Olympics"}}]}] ```