--- --- # The Presidential Campaign Already Has a Third-Party Candidate by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 20, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 20, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This presidential campaign already has a third-party candidate.**](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/sorry-bloomberg-trump-is-already-a-third-party-candidate/) By Nate Silver in FiveThirtyEight **2\.** [**How inequality creates obesity.**](http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/how-inequality-creates-obesity) By Tom Jacobs in _Pacific Standard_ **3\.** [**Sports is over-commercialized now, but it’s about to get worse.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/future-corporate-sports-sponsorhip/486569/?utm%5Fsource=atltw) By Joe Pinsker in _The Atlantic_ **4\.** [**Rich countries should leave fossil fuels in the ground and let poor countries sell theirs.**](http://www.cgdev.org/blog/oxfam-america-poor-countries-should-get-sell-remaining-fossil-fuels) By Michele de Nevers at the Center for Global Development **5\.** [**Should zoos be banned?**](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/01/should-zoos-be-banned-head-to-head) By Alison Benjamin and Toby Moses in _The Guardian_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Today's Five Best Ideas: Third parties, obesity and zoos ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4607783/the-presidential-campaign-already-has-a-third-party-candidate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4607783/the-presidential-campaign-already-has-a-third-party-candidate/"},"headline":"The Presidential Campaign Already Has a Third-Party Candidate","datePublished":"2016-12-20T17:00:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:13.270Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4607783/the-presidential-campaign-already-has-a-third-party-candidate/","keywords":["Innovation","2016 Election topic","Sports topic","Obesity","Zoos","Fossil fuels"],"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/4607783/the-presidential-campaign-already-has-a-third-party-candidate/","name":"The Presidential Campaign Already Has a Third-Party Candidate"}}]}] ```