--- --- # Let Kurdistan Leave Iraq by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 21, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 21, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Let Kurdistan leave Iraq.**](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kurdistan-deserves-an-amicable-divorce-from-baghdad/2016/05/05/b1d5218c-1221-11e6-81b4-581a5c4c42df%5Fstory.html) By Masrour Barzani in the Washington Post **2\.** [**Think you know where your water comes from? Here’s how one city gets every drop.**](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/24/nyregion/how-nyc-gets-its-water-new-york-101.html) By Emily S. Rueb and Josh Cochran in the New York Times **3\.** [**Can carbon farming slow climate change?**](http://civileats.com/2016/03/16/how-carbon-farming-reverse-climate-change-eric-toensmeier/) By Vera Liang Chang in Civil Eats **4\.** [**The 4-4 Supreme Court is changing our legal landscape.**](http://www.slate.com/articles/news%5Fand%5Fpolitics/jurisprudence/2016/03/antonin%5Fscalia%5Fs%5Fdeath%5Fhas%5Fchanged%5Fthe%5Fway%5Fthe%5Fsupreme%5Fcourt%5Fand%5Fconservative.html) By Dahlia Lithwick in Slate **5\.** [**Your Facebook friends might be bad for your health.**](http://qz.com/631623/your-facebook-friends-really-want-to-believe-that-drinking-is-good-for-your-health/) By Jordan Rosenfeld in Quartz  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: Iraq, Water, Carbon Farming, Supreme Court ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4609008/let-kurdistan-leave-iraq/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4609008/let-kurdistan-leave-iraq/"},"headline":"Let Kurdistan Leave Iraq","datePublished":"2016-12-21T17:00:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:13.094Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4609008/let-kurdistan-leave-iraq/","keywords":["Innovation","Supreme Court","climate change","Iraq","facebook","Water"],"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/4609008/let-kurdistan-leave-iraq/","name":"Let Kurdistan Leave Iraq"}}]}] ```