--- title: Five Best Ideas: The NFL Can Teach Congress About Diversity description: Here’s what the NFL can teach Congress about diversity, the internet is saving culture and more. canonical: https://time.com/4703505/the-nfl-can-teach-congress-about-diversity/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-16T16:00:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:59.991Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The NFL Can Teach Congress About Diversity og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4703505/the-nfl-can-teach-congress-about-diversity/ 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 NFL Can Teach Congress About Diversity twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The NFL Can Teach Congress About Diversity by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 16, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 16, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s what the NFL can teach Congress about diversity.**](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-nfl-can-teach-congress-about-hiring-more-diverse-staffs/) By Cynthia (CC) DuBois in _FiveThirtyEight_ **2\.** [**Actually, rather than killing culture, the internet is saving it.**](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/technology/how-the-internet-is-saving-culture-not-killing-it.html) By Farhad Manjoo in the _New York Times_ **3\.** [**Open-plan offices are pushing our most effective workers out the door.**](https://hackernoon.com/58-of-high-performance-employees-say-they-need-more-quiet-work-spaces-4381241a6453#.og8mt6db5) By William Belk at _Hacker Noon_ **4\.** [**Garbage dumps are dangerous and bad for the environment. Here’s how to fix them.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-15/why-garbage-dumps-are-so-dangerous) By Adam Minter in _Bloomberg View_ **5\.** [**Can social media give sharks a better reputation?**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/can-social-media-give-sharks-better-reputation-180962411/) By Christopher Crosby in _Smithsonian_  [_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/4703505/the-nfl-can-teach-congress-about-diversity/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4703505/the-nfl-can-teach-congress-about-diversity/"},"headline":"The NFL Can Teach Congress About Diversity","datePublished":"2017-03-16T16:00:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:59.991Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4703505/the-nfl-can-teach-congress-about-diversity/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Social Media","Innovation","Internet","Diversity","Garbage","productivity"],"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/4703505/the-nfl-can-teach-congress-about-diversity/","name":"The NFL Can Teach Congress About Diversity"}}]}] ```