--- title: Five Best Ideas: We Need to Bridge the Urban-Rural Divide description: Why it’s so important to bridge the urban-rural divide, could patients treat depression at home with shock therapy and more. canonical: https://time.com/4653449/trump-executive-order-urban-rural/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-30T17:00:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:07.587Z article:section: Ideas og:title: It's Important to Bridge The Urban-Rural Divide og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4653449/trump-executive-order-urban-rural/ 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: It's Important to Bridge The Urban-Rural Divide 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 --- # It's Important to Bridge The Urban-Rural Divide by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 30, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 30, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This is why it’s so important to bridge the urban-rural divide.**](http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article129403254.html) By Esther Manheimer and Grant Godwin in the _Raleigh News and Observer_ **2\.** [**Could patients treat depression at home with shock therapy?**](http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/treating-depression-with-tdcs-startup-ybrain-aims-for-the-mainstream) By Eliza Strickland in _IEEE Spectrum_ **3\.** [**Sign of the future: Solar power created more jobs than oil, gas and coal combined last year.**](http://www.computerworld.com/article/3161188/sustainable-it/us-solar-industry-passes-oil-coal-and-gas-for-job-creation.html) By Lucas Mearian in _ComputerWorld_ **4\.** [**Here’s how Trump’s immigration executive order could hurt America’s research universities.**](https://www.wired.com/2017/01/trumps-muslim-ban-isnt-just-inhumane-itll-make-america-dumber/) By Emily Dreyfuss in _Wired_ **5\.** [**Maybe it’s time to get rid of Mother Goose.**](http://www.ozy.com/immodest-proposal/its-time-to-kill-off-mother-goose/75247) By Sean Braswell in _Ozy_  [_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/4653449/trump-executive-order-urban-rural/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4653449/trump-executive-order-urban-rural/"},"headline":"It's Important to Bridge The Urban-Rural Divide","datePublished":"2017-01-30T17:00:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:07.587Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4653449/trump-executive-order-urban-rural/","keywords":["Innovation","society","Depression","Immigration","Solar Power"],"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/4653449/trump-executive-order-urban-rural/","name":"It's Important to Bridge The Urban-Rural Divide"}}]}] ```