Bridge Builders. Nathan Bomey
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depict them in artwork. Great bridges capture our imagination. They are feats of engineering. “That’s why there are so many beautiful designs out there,” said Azizinamini, who was honored by the White House in 2015 for making the nation’s bridges safer.33 “People identify a location, a community, a city by that bridge.”
When we build bridges, entire societies are often transformed.
“If I tell you, ‘San Francisco,’” Azizinamini said, “what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?”
Notes
1 1. Gabriel Sanchez and Edward Vargas, “73% of Democrats Are Wearing Masks to Fight Coronavirus. Only 59% of Republicans Are,” Washington Post, May 15, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/15/73-democrats-are-wearing-masks-fight-coronavirus-only-59-republicans-are/.
2 2. Michael Scherer, “Trump’s Mockery of Wearing Masks Divides Republicans,” Washington Post, May 27, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-mockery-of-wearing-masks-divides-republicans/2020/05/26/2c2bdc02-9f61-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html.
3 3. Hannah Allam, “Researchers Say That The Debate Over The Coronavirus May Become More Violent,” NPR, May 15, 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/05/15/857105166/researchers-say-that-the-debate-over-the-coronavirus-may-become-more-violent.
4 4. Margaret Talev, “Axios-Ipsos Poll: There Is No New Normal,” Axios, July 7, 2020, https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-poll-coronavirus-index-15-weeks-e4eb53cc-9bc8-4cac-8285-07e5e5ef6b2b.html.
5 5. “CDC COVID Data Tracker,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/.
6 6. “The Partisan Divide on Political Values Grows Even Wider,” Pew Research Center, October 5, 2017, https://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/the-partisan-divide-on-political-values-grows-even-wider/.
7 7. Eric Bradner, Arlette Saenz, and Sarah Mucha, “Biden Embraces Healer-in-Chief Role in Return to Campaign Trail,” CNN, June 8, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/joe-biden-return-to-campaign-trail/index.html.
8 8. Sam Gringlas, Scott Neuman, and Camila Domonoske, “‘Far From Over’: Trump Refuses to Concede as Biden’s Margin of Victory Widens,” NPR, November 7, 2020, https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/07/932062684/far-from-over-trump-refuses-to-concede-as-ap-others-call-election-for-biden.
9 9. “Presidential Results,” CNN, November 12, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/results/president.
10 10. Glenn Kessler and Salvador Rizzo, “President Trump’s False Claims of Vote Fraud: A Chronology,” Washington Post, November 5, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/05/president-trumps-false-claims-vote-fraud-chronology/.
11 11. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, “Joint Statement from Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees,” November 12, 2020, https://www.ci sa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-elec tion.
12 12. Kim Hart, “Exclusive Poll: Most Democrats See Republicans As Racist, Sexist,” Axios, November 12, 2018, https://www.axios.com/poll-democrats-and-republicans-hate-each-other-racist-ignorant-evil-99ae7afc-5a51-42be-8ee2-3959e43ce320.html.
13 13. Ibid.
14 14. Mary Baker, “Gartner Survey Shows 47% of Employees Report Being Distracted at Work by the US Presidential Election,” Gartner, February 18, 2020, https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-02-18-gartner-survey-shows-47--of-employees-report-being-di.
15 15. Susan Page, “Divided We Fall? Americans See our Angry Political Debate as ‘A Big Problem,’” USA Today, December 9, 2019, https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/12/05/backstory-america-divided-how-usa-today-help/2599103001/.
16 16. Joan Conrow, “Anti-Vaccine Movement Embraced at Extremes of Political Spectrum, Study Finds,” Cornell Alliance for Science, https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2018/06/anti-vaccine-movement-embraced-extremes-political-spectrumstudy-finds/.
17 17. Nathan Bomey, After the Fact: The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump, Prometheus Books, 2018.
18 18. Penelope Muse Abernathy, “News Deserts and Ghost Newspapers: Will Local News Survive?” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hussman School of Journalism and Media, June 2020, https://www.usnewsdeserts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/2020_News_Deserts_and_Ghost_Newspapers.pdf.
19 19. Tatyana Hopkins, “Social Media Companies Profiting from Misinformation,” GW Today, June 19, 2020, https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/social-media-companies-profiting-misinformation.
20 20. Daniel Yudkin, Stephen Hawkins, and Tim Dixon, “The Perception Gap: How False Impressions Are Pulling Americans Apart,” More in Common, June 2019, https://perceptiongap.us/media/zaslaroc/perception-gap-report-1-0-3.pdf.
21 21. Ibid.
22 22. Stephen Hawkins, et al., “Hidden Tribes: A Study of America’s Polarized Landscape,” More in Common, 2018, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a22740f/t/5bbcea6b7817f7bf7342b718/1539107467397/hidden_tribes_report-2.pdf.
23 23. Ibid.
24 24. Jennifer Levitz, Erin Ailworth, and Tawnell D. Hobbs, “George Floyd and Derek Chauvin: The Lives of the Victim and His Killer,” Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-floyd-and-derek-chauvin-the-lives-of-the-victim-and-his-killer-11592761495.