--- title: Five Best: Trump Should Make The Power Grid Great Again description: Trump should make the power grid great again, the old rules of genetic research are being undermined by new gene editing tech and more. canonical: https://time.com/4730794/trump-should-make-americas-power-grid-great-again/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-07T16:00:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:56.852Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Trump Should Make America’s Power Grid Great Again og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4730794/trump-should-make-americas-power-grid-great-again/ 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: Trump Should Make America’s Power Grid Great Again 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 --- # Trump Should Make America’s Power Grid Great Again by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 7, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Apr 7, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Trump should make America’s power grid great again.**](http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2017/04/05/president-trump-should-make-the-power-grid-great-again/) By Robert Knake at the _Council on Foreign Relations_ **2\.** [**The old rules of genetic research are being undermined by new gene editing tech.**](http://www.nature.com/news/crispr-studies-muddy-results-of-older-gene-research-1.21763) By Heidi Ledford in _Nature_ **3\.** [**These are the final frontiers to ‘peak attention’ — when media is truly everywhere.**](https://medium.com/the-dotted-line/the-two-final-frontiers-before-we-reach-peak-attention-85569587ddef) By Joshua Lasky in the _Dotted Line_ **4\.** [**The attorney general wants to end legal pot sales. That could cost some states millions.**](http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/trump-crack-down-legal-marijuana-would-hurt-state-budgets) By Richard C. Auxier at the _Tax Policy Center_ **5\.** [**“Superfoods” aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.**](http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2017/04/05/why%5Ffrench%5Ffries%5Fare%5Fmore%5Fof%5Fa%5Fsuperfood%5Fthan%5Fkale.html) By Ross Pomeroy in _Real Clear Science_  [_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/4730794/trump-should-make-americas-power-grid-great-again/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4730794/trump-should-make-americas-power-grid-great-again/"},"headline":"Trump Should Make America’s Power Grid Great Again","datePublished":"2017-04-07T16:00:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:56.852Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4730794/trump-should-make-americas-power-grid-great-again/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Marijuana","Innovation","Food","Genetics","Media"],"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/4730794/trump-should-make-americas-power-grid-great-again/","name":"Trump Should Make America’s Power Grid Great Again"}}]}] ```