--- description: Paid family leave should include dads, could America stop a domestic ‘dirty bomb’ plot and more. title: Paid Family Leave Should Include Dads image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Five Best Ideas](/tag/five-best-ideas/) ## Five Best Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Paid Family Leave Should Include Dads by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 22, 2017 5:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 22, 2017 5:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**Paid family leave should include dads, too.**](http://www.aei.org/publication/paid-family-leave-paid-leave-for-fathers-too-please/ "undefined") By Eleanor Krause and Richard Reeves at _AEI_ **2\.** [**Could America stop a domestic ‘dirty bomb’ plot?**](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/02/21/why-america-can-t-spot-dirty-bombs.html "undefined") By Jana Winter in the _Daily Beast_ **3\.** [**Health and fitness apps might be doing more harm than good.**](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/21/health-apps-could-be-doing-more-harm-than-good-warn-scientists "undefined") By Hannah Devlin in the _Guardian_ **4\.** [**This is why facts don’t change our minds.**](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds "undefined") By Elizabeth Kolbert in the _New Yorker_ **5\.** [**Here’s how immigrants are helping to bring Detroit back from the brink.**](http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21717104-recently-bankrupt-city-needs-newcomers-how-immigrants-are-helping-detroits-recovery "undefined") By _the Economist_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4678663/paid-family-leave-should-include-dads/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4678663/paid-family-leave-should-include-dads/"},"headline":"Paid Family Leave Should Include Dads","datePublished":"2017-02-22T17:00:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:03.043Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4678663/paid-family-leave-should-include-dads/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Family","Terrorism","Immigration","health"],"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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4678663/paid-family-leave-should-include-dads/","name":"Paid Family Leave Should Include Dads"}}]}] ```