style="font-size:15px;"> 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.
25 25. “About IFYC,” Interfaith Youth Core, https://ifyc.org/about.
26 26. Eboo Patel and Mary Ellen Giess, “Bring Muslims, Evangelicals, and Atheists Together on Campus,” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 3, 2015, https://www.chronicle.com/article/Bring-Muslims-Evangelicals/234018.
27 27. “Be the Bridge,” Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/groups/BetheBridge/.
