--- title: Five Best: You Might Need a Reservation at National Parks description: Soon you might need reservations to visit a national park, America needs a strategy for the sixteen year-old war in Afghanistan and more. canonical: https://time.com/4891211/you-might-need-a-reservation-at-national-parks/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-08T16:00:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:36.407Z article:section: Ideas og:title: You Might Need a Reservation at National Parks og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4891211/you-might-need-a-reservation-at-national-parks/ 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: You Might Need a Reservation at National Parks 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 --- # You Might Need a Reservation at National Parks by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 8, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 8, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Soon you might need reservations to visit a national park — for a good reason.**](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-yosemite-zion-national-parks-20170803-story.html) By Scott Martelle in the _Los Angeles Times_ **2\.** [**America needs a strategy for the sixteen year-old war in Afghanistan.**](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/08/07/trump-owes-troops-afghanistan-war-strategy-editorials-debates/536235001/) By the editorial board of _USA Today_ **3\.** [**Don’t let social media convince you everyone else’s life is perfect.**](https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-teen-doctor/201708/the-problem-assuming-others-are-perfect) By Barbara Greenberg in P_sychology Today_ **4\.** [**The war on drugs is holding science back.**](https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/war-drugs-holding-science-back) By Naomi Burke-Shyne at the _Open Society Foundations_ **5\.** [**Could we use games to fight fake news?**](http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/08/games-might-be-a-good-tool-for-fighting-fake-news-heres-what-three-developers-have-learned/) By Christine Schmidt at _NiemanLab_  [_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/4891211/you-might-need-a-reservation-at-national-parks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4891211/you-might-need-a-reservation-at-national-parks/"},"headline":"You Might Need a Reservation at National Parks","datePublished":"2017-08-08T16:00:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:36.407Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4891211/you-might-need-a-reservation-at-national-parks/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Social Media","Afghanistan","Innovation","National Parks","war on drugs","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/4891211/you-might-need-a-reservation-at-national-parks/","name":"You Might Need a Reservation at National Parks"}}]}] ```