--- title: Five Best: How Female Politicians Became New American Heroes description: How female politicians became our new American heroes, almost every AI algorithm is biased and more. canonical: https://time.com/4858414/how-female-politicians-became-new-american-heroes/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-14T16:00:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:40.780Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Female Politicians Became New American Heroes og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4858414/how-female-politicians-became-new-american-heroes/ 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: How Female Politicians Became New American Heroes 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 --- # How Female Politicians Became New American Heroes by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 14, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 14, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**How female politicians became our new American heroes.**](https://theweek.com/articles/709496/rise-political-shero) By Laura Bogart at the _Week_ **2\.** [**Almost every AI algorithm is biased.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608248/biased-algorithms-are-everywhere-and-no-one-seems-to-care/) By Will Knight in _MIT Technology Review_ **3\.** [**For college students, a laptop in the classroom is vital for success, right? Not quite.**](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/students-are-better-off-without-a-laptop-in-the-classroom/) By Cindi May in _Scientific American_ **4\.** [**Here is how we can counter future election interference.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/america-needs-a-dead-mans-switch/532041/) By John P. Carlin in the A_tlantic_ **5\.** [**We’re just beginning to understand how stress affects us over our lifetimes.**](https://aeon.co/essays/how-stress-works-in-the-human-body-to-make-or-break-us) By Bruce McEwen in _Aeon_  [_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/4858414/how-female-politicians-became-new-american-heroes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4858414/how-female-politicians-became-new-american-heroes/"},"headline":"How Female Politicians Became New American Heroes","datePublished":"2017-07-14T16:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:40.780Z","description":"How female politicians became our new American heroes, almost every AI algorithm is biased and more.","url":"https://time.com/4858414/how-female-politicians-became-new-american-heroes/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Education","Stress","elections","Politicians","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/4858414/how-female-politicians-became-new-american-heroes/","name":"How Female Politicians Became New American Heroes"}}]}] ```