--- title: How Transportation Can Help Unite America description: How transportation divided — and can reconnect — America. Plus a Peace Corps for the Muslim world and more. canonical: https://time.com/4084885/transportation-unite-america/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-23T16:01:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:08:41.767Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Transportation Can Help Unite America og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4084885/transportation-unite-america/ 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: How Transportation Can Help Unite America twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Transportation Can Help Unite America by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 23, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Oct 23, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Transportation helped divide America in the past. Now it can help strengthen our nation.**](http://aspen.us/journal/editions/septemberoctober-2015/reconnecting-america-21st-century) By Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx in the Aspen Journal of Ideas **2\.** [**To combat the lure of ISIS, the Muslim world needs its own Peace Corps.**](http://qz.com/530734/to-combat-the-lure-of-isil-the-muslim-world-needs-its-own-peace-corps/) By Bobby Ghosh in Quartz **3\.** [**Vladimir Putin isn’t a strategic genius.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/opinion/the-myth-of-putins-strategic-genius.html) By Michael A. McFaul in the New York Times **4\.** [**Why are biomedical superstars signing on with Google?**](http://www.nature.com/news/why-biomedical-superstars-are-signing-on-with-google-1.18600) By Erika Check Hayden in Nature **5\.** [**Want better education policy? There’s a checklist for that.**](http://www.governing.com/gov-institute/voices/col-state-education-policy-checklist.html) By Rich Crandall and Danielle M. Gonzales in Governing  [_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/4084885/transportation-unite-america/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4084885/transportation-unite-america/"},"headline":"How Transportation Can Help Unite America","datePublished":"2015-10-23T16:01:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:08:41.767Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4084885/transportation-unite-america/","keywords":["Innovation","putin","Transportation","Google","Education","ISIS"],"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/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4084885/transportation-unite-america/","name":"How Transportation Can Help Unite America"}}]}] ```