--- title: Five Best: Hairstylists Can Help Fight Domestic Violence description: How hairstylists can help fight domestic violence, are we overusing sanctions as a foreign policy tool and more. canonical: https://time.com/4887462/hairstylists-can-help-fight-domestic-violence/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-04T16:00:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:36.962Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Hairstylists Can Help Fight Domestic Violence og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4887462/hairstylists-can-help-fight-domestic-violence/ 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: Hairstylists Can Help Fight Domestic Violence 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 --- # Hairstylists Can Help Fight Domestic Violence by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 4, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 4, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how hairstylists can help fight domestic violence.**](https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/domestic-violence-training-new-york-hairstylists.html) By Caitlin Moscatello in the _Cut_ **2\.** [**Are we overusing sanctions as a foreign policy tool?**](https://www.cfr.org/blog/have-sanctions-become-swiss-army-knife-us-foreign-policy) By Robert Kahn at the C_ouncil on Foreign Relations_ **3\.** [**Most of those billion dollar startups are fooling themselves — and us.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-02/the-magic-behind-many-unicorn-startups-complex-stock-contracts) By Julie VerHage at _Bloomberg Technology_ **4\.** [**Have smartphones undermined a generation?**](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/) By Jean M. Twenge in the _Atlantic_ **5\.** [**This collapsible solar lantern is saving refugee lives.**](https://www.fastcompany.com/40439433/how-a-small-solar-light-is-saving-refugees-lives) By Rina Raphael in _Fast Company_  [_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/4887462/hairstylists-can-help-fight-domestic-violence/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4887462/hairstylists-can-help-fight-domestic-violence/"},"headline":"Hairstylists Can Help Fight Domestic Violence","datePublished":"2017-08-04T16:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:36.962Z","description":"These are today's five best","url":"https://time.com/4887462/hairstylists-can-help-fight-domestic-violence/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Foreign Policy","Innovation","Smartphones","Refugees","Startups","domestic violence"],"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/4887462/hairstylists-can-help-fight-domestic-violence/","name":"Hairstylists Can Help Fight Domestic Violence"}}]}] ```