--- title: Five Best: More Veterans are Running for Political Office description: Here’s why more veterans are running for political office, are small businesses really the secret ingredient to economic growth and more. canonical: https://time.com/5018780/why-more-veterans-are-running-for-political-office/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-10T17:00:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:21.371Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why More Veterans are Running for Political Office og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5018780/why-more-veterans-are-running-for-political-office/ 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: Why More Veterans are Running for Political Office 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 --- # Why More Veterans are Running for Political Office by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 10, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 10, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s why more veterans are running for political office.**](http://time.com/5014163/veterans-run-for-office/) By Rye Barcott and Jake Wood in _Time_ **2\.** [**Are small businesses really the secret ingredient to economic growth?**](https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-small-business-really-contribute-to-economic-growth) By Benjamin C. Waterhouse in _Aeon_ **3\.** [**This algorithm could help rein in fake news.**](https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-11-10-can-a-mathematical-model-detect-fake-news-two-penn-state-professors-want-to-find-out) By Tina Nazerian in _EdSurge_ **4\.** [**Should doctors start ordering exercise along with other depression treatment?**](http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2017/should-exercise-be-what-the-doctor-orders-for-depression/) By _Michigan State University_ **5\.** [**This is what happens when you give detained immigrants legal support.**](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/9/16623906/immigration-court-lawyer) By Dara Lind in _Vox_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: More Veterans are Running for Political Office ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5018780/why-more-veterans-are-running-for-political-office/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5018780/why-more-veterans-are-running-for-political-office/"},"headline":"Why More Veterans are Running for Political Office","datePublished":"2017-11-10T17:00:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:21.371Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5018780/why-more-veterans-are-running-for-political-office/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Depression","Economy","Innovation","politics","Immigration","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/5018780/why-more-veterans-are-running-for-political-office/","name":"Why More Veterans are Running for Political Office"}}]}] ```