--- title: Five Best: Marriage Is Becoming a Mark of Privilege description: Why marriage is becoming a mark of privilege, America should be focused on avoiding a two-front global war and more. canonical: https://time.com/4965013/marriage-is-becoming-a-mark-of-privilege/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-02T16:00:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:26.765Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Marriage Is Becoming a Mark of Privilege og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4965013/marriage-is-becoming-a-mark-of-privilege/ 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: Marriage Is Becoming a Mark of Privilege 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 --- # Marriage Is Becoming a Mark of Privilege by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 2, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 2, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Why marriage is becoming a mark of privilege.**](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/upshot/how-did-marriage-become-a-mark-of-privilege.html) By Claire Cain Miller in the _Upshot_ **2\.** [**America should be focused on avoiding a two-front global war.**](http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/09/waltzing-toward-two-front-global-war/141393/) By Christopher Bolan in _Defense One_ **3\.** [**The era of standardized tests for higher education admissions might soon be over.**](http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/students-rejoice-standardized-testing-may-soon-be-dead/80875) By Sushmita Pathak in _Ozy_ **4\.** [**Doctors may have a way to diagnose CTE from brain trauma in living patients.**](https://www.sbnation.com/2017/9/26/16369100/cte-living-patients-nfl-football) By Jeanna Thomas in _SB Nation_ **5\.** [**Changing climate means more and stronger storms — and more power outages. A better grid could keep the lights on.**](http://grist.org/article/hurricanes-keep-bringing-blackouts-clean-energy-could-keep-the-lights-on/) By Amelia Urry in _Grist_  [_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/4965013/marriage-is-becoming-a-mark-of-privilege/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4965013/marriage-is-becoming-a-mark-of-privilege/"},"headline":"Marriage Is Becoming a Mark of Privilege","datePublished":"2017-10-02T16:00:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:26.765Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4965013/marriage-is-becoming-a-mark-of-privilege/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","climate change","Education","Marriage","war","CTE"],"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/4965013/marriage-is-becoming-a-mark-of-privilege/","name":"Marriage Is Becoming a Mark of Privilege"}}]}] ```