--- title: Think About Children When You Cast Your Vote Election Day description: On Election Day, think about children when you vote, how America’s heroin epidemic is linked to U.S. policy in Afghanistan and more. canonical: https://time.com/4531196/think-about-children-when-you-cast-your-vote-election-day/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-14T16:00:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:25.582Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Think About Children When You Cast Your Vote Election Day og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4531196/think-about-children-when-you-cast-your-vote-election-day/ 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: Think About Children When You Cast Your Vote Election Day twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Think About Children When You Cast Your Vote Election Day by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 14, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 14, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**On Election Day, don’t think about yourself. Think about children when you cast your vote.**](http://host.madison.com/ct/opinion/column/dr-dipesh-navsaria-vote-nov-with-children-in-mind/article%5F407ccc42-f26c-5e7e-9916-b6edf28549c0.html) By Dipesh Navsaria in the Madison Capital Times **2\.** [**How America’s heroin epidemic is linked to U.S. policy in Afghanistan.**](https://ramenir.com/2016/10/09/unintended-consequences-how-failures-in-afghanistan-feeds-the-us-heroin-epidemic/) By Felipe Cruvinel at Ramen IR **3\.** [**Vacations are good for us and good for our employers. So why don’t we take them?**](http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the%5Fladder/2016/10/project%5Ftime%5Foff%5Fthinks%5Famerican%5Fworkers%5Fshould%5Ftake%5Fmore%5Fvacation%5Ftime.html) By L. V. Anderson in Slate **4\.** [**The CDC can’t use funds to study gun violence. Machines could do the research for free.**](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-ai-can-help-america-finally-understand-its-gun-violence-epidemic) By Jordan Pearson in Motherboard **5\.** [**One more casualty of our changing climate: endangered languages.**](http://grist.org/justice/as-ice-melts-and-seas-rise-can-endangered-languages-survive/) By Kate Yoder in Grist  [_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/4531196/think-about-children-when-you-cast-your-vote-election-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4531196/think-about-children-when-you-cast-your-vote-election-day/"},"headline":"Think About Children When You Cast Your Vote Election Day","datePublished":"2016-10-14T16:00:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:25.582Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4531196/think-about-children-when-you-cast-your-vote-election-day/","keywords":["Innovation","2016 Election topic","climate change","Gun Violence","Heroin","productivity"],"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/4531196/think-about-children-when-you-cast-your-vote-election-day/","name":"Think About Children When You Cast Your Vote Election Day"}}]}] ```