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70 Shares The tendency for citizens to ‘rally round the flag’ during a crisis led many observers to assume the Covid-19 outbreak would be a negative development for the electoral fortunes of populist parties. Yet as Brett Meyer explains, this pattern has been far from uniform across western Europe. Drawing on a new study, he highlights several structural changes brought on by the pandemic which may ultimately play to the strengths of populist politicians. It has become clear t...

Armed with circuits and cardboard, third graders at Trinity Lutheran School became rock stars. The class used programmable circuits to create homemade electric guitars. The project, which took around a week to complete, incorporated programs the students learn to use on their Chromebooks to assign certain sounds to closed circuits. From there, students were able to create their own customizable five-stringed guitars while incorporating the various circuits into them. As a result, the third-grad...

If you asked Brett Meyer his outlook for Trinity Lutheran School for the fall semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic, he would have told you the school was walking on eggshells. “I think there was just a lot of fear and just the unknown of being shut down and how this would impact our students and teachers in terms of just health and the transfer of the virus,” said Meyer, STEM Coordinator at the 150-student school. “It was extremely cautious when we started, let’s put it that ...