Five Best Ideas of the Day: the Dark Side of American Niceness - The Aspen Institute

Why there’s a dark side to America’s niceness.

D. Berton Emerson in the Los Angeles Review of Books
This antioxidant makes old blood vessels seem young again.

Lisa Marshall at University of Colorado Boulder
Can texting prevent an opioid relapse?

Kristina Sauerwein at Washington University St. Louis
This innovation opens the door to chemotherapy without pills or needles.

Martin O'Rourke and Alan Young in Scientific American
As nations face destabilizing conflict, this police squad fills a vital gap.

Elisabeth Braw in Defense One