--- description: The idea of North America is over, America is facing a dangerous enemy and more. title: The Idea of North America Is Over 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 # The Idea of North America Is Over by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 7, 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 Mar 7, 2017 5:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**The idea of North America is over.**](http://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/the-end-of-the-idea-of-north-america "undefined") By Benjamin Wallace-Wells in the _New Yorker_ **2\.** [**America is facing a dangerous enemy. We just can’t agree who.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/trump-islam-authoritarianism/516627/ "undefined") By Uri Friedman in the _Atlantic_ **3\.** [**Artificial intelligence has a PR problem.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603761/ais-pr-problem/ "undefined") By Jerry Kaplan in _MIT Technology Review_ **4\.** [**This is how YouTube will kill cable.**](http://www.computerworld.com/article/3176776/web-apps/how-youtube-tv-will-kill-cable.html "undefined") By Mike Elgan in _Computerworld_ **5\.** [**Newsrooms are making leaks easier — and more secure than ever. Here’s how.**](http://www.cjr.org/tow%5Fcenter/newsrooms-trump-leaks-secure.php "undefined") By Charles Berret in the _Columbia Journalism Review_  [_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/4693345/the-idea-of-north-america-is-over/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4693345/the-idea-of-north-america-is-over/"},"headline":"The Idea of North America Is Over","datePublished":"2017-03-07T17:00:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:01.268Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4693345/the-idea-of-north-america-is-over/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","YouTube","Journalism","United States","AI"],"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/4693345/the-idea-of-north-america-is-over/","name":"The Idea of North America Is Over"}}]}] ```