--- title: Five Best Ideas: How To Lose The War on Terror description: And four more of today's best ideas canonical: https://time.com/4651602/how-to-lose-the-war-on-terror/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-27T17:00:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:08.011Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How To Lose The War on Terror og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4651602/how-to-lose-the-war-on-terror/ 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: How To Lose The War on Terror twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How To Lose The War on Terror by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 27, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 27, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**How to lose the war on terror.**](http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-to-lose-the-war-on-terror) By Robin Wright in _The_ _New Yorker_ **2\.** [**What comes after touchscreens in our interaction with machines?**](http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/1/26/14390234/gadget-interactions-touchscreen-voice-gesture-control) By Ashley Carman at _The_ _Verge_ **3\.** [**Forget credit scores. Banks might be looking at your Facebook feed before they give you a loan.**](http://twocents.lifehacker.com/lenders-may-look-at-your-social-profiles-to-judge-your-1791529743) By Kristin Wong in _LifeHacker_ **4\.** [**Find out how one nation used peer pressure to slash food waste by 25 percent.**](https://www.fastcoexist.com/3067347/how-did-denmark-spark-its-miraculous-food-waste-reduction) By Charlie Sorrel in _Fast Co. Exist_ **5\.** [**Here’s the case for slower foreign policy decision-making.**](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/01/25/the-case-for-slower-foreign-policy-decisionmaking/) By Tamara Cofman Wittes at the _Brookings Institution_  [_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/4651602/how-to-lose-the-war-on-terror/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4651602/how-to-lose-the-war-on-terror/"},"headline":"How To Lose The War on Terror","datePublished":"2017-01-27T17:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:08.011Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4651602/how-to-lose-the-war-on-terror/","keywords":["Innovation","Foreign Policy","Food","facebook","Terrorism"],"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/4651602/how-to-lose-the-war-on-terror/","name":"How To Lose The War on Terror"}}]}] ```