--- --- # This Tax Could Save Your Life by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 15, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 15, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This tax could save your life.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/opinions/sugar-drink-taxes-work-frieden/index.html) By Tom Frieden at _CNN_ **2\.** [**Can we be too emotionally intelligent?**](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/too-much-emotional-intelligence-is-a-bad-thing/) By Agata Blaszczak-Boxe in _Scientific American_ **3\.** [**Why we should not know our own passwords.**](http://www.elon.edu/e-net/Article/145224) By Megan Squire at _Elon University_ **4\.** [**Is television finally ready to discuss abortion?**](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/mar/13/the-handmaids-tale-scandal-girls-jane-the-virgin-is-tv-ready-to-discuss-abortion) By Ellen E. Jones in the _Guardian_ **5\.** [**One more reason to fear fake news: It’s fooling our kids.**](http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/health/fake-news-kids-common-sense-media/index.html) By Kelly Wallace at _CNN_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas: This Tax Could Save Your Life ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4702115/this-tax-could-save-your-life/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4702115/this-tax-could-save-your-life/"},"headline":"This Tax Could Save Your Life","datePublished":"2017-03-15T16:00:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:00.366Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4702115/this-tax-could-save-your-life/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","abortion","Innovation","Taxes","emotions","Passwords","fake news"],"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/4702115/this-tax-could-save-your-life/","name":"This Tax Could Save Your Life"}}]}] ```