Media-based campaigns have failed to engage the electorate. Few people find political campaigns interesting, nonvoters typically outnumber voters, and public evaluations of candidates, the press, and the political process itself are far from sympathetic (Popkin and McDonald, 2000; Patterson, 2000; Cook et al., 2000). This disconnect between modern campaigns and their intended audience can be tr...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity are sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups to which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such distant solidarity can occur when the perceived treatment of an out-group clashes with one's political beliefs (e.g., for Leftists, oppressi...

In recent years, political communication has emerged as one of the most prolific subfields within science and social sciences a whole [...]

Among the many Assyrian written sources and inscriptions some texts report the military expeditions of the kings of Assyria. These accounts, the so-called Itineraries texts, describe in details the different stops of the armies through territories outside the Assyrian heartland. With regard to the Zagros area, the reports mention different long and ruthless campaigns undertaken by some Assyrian...