--- title: Five Best Ideas: The President Needs the United Nations description: Every American president eventually needs the United Nations, should we just leave politics to the celebrities and more. canonical: https://time.com/4634347/the-president-needs-the-united-nations/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-13T19:32:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:11.159Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The President Needs the United Nations og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4634347/the-president-needs-the-united-nations/ 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: The President Needs the United Nations twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The President Needs the United Nations by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 13, 2017 7:32 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 13, 2017 7:32 PM UTC **1\.** [**Every American president eventually needs the United Nations.**](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/01/11/why-trump-needs-the-united-nations/) By Eric Rosand at the Brookings Institution **2\.** [**Should we just leave politics to the celebrities?**](https://newrepublic.com/article/139756/democrats-run-celebrity-president)[**.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/how-isis-started-syria-iraq/412042/) By Jeet Heer in _The New Republic_ **3\.** [**Here’s how ‘politically correct’ became a weaponized term.**](http://democracyjournal.org/alcove/who-is-really-politically-correct/) By Kevin Mattson in _Democracy_ **4\.** [**For faster reflexes, learn to play an instrument.**](http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/01/06/play-an-instrument-and-stay-alert/) By the University of Montreal **5\.** [**These disposable paper airplane drones could be lifesavers.**](http://www.recode.net/2017/1/12/14245816/disposable-drones-paper-darpa-save-your-life-otherlab) By April Glaser in _ReCode_  [_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/4634347/the-president-needs-the-united-nations/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4634347/the-president-needs-the-united-nations/"},"headline":"The President Needs the United Nations","datePublished":"2017-01-13T19:32:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:11.159Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4634347/the-president-needs-the-united-nations/","keywords":["Innovation","politics","Music","United Nations","Drones"],"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/4634347/the-president-needs-the-united-nations/","name":"The President Needs the United Nations"}}]}] ```