Will Donald Trump, who says he “runs the world” and approved a picture of himself with a crown above the caption “Long Live the King,” soon have Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet, “Common Sense,” banned.

Common sense is rarely applied when discussing the ratings impact of Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever on the WNBA and women's basketball. Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) celebrates a ...

As Thomas Paine wrote in “Common Sense” in 1776, “in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought ...

In recent years, the idea of “common sense” has again catapulted to ... that we now associate with democracy at large. Thomas Paine’s pamphlet energized readers to support principles of ...

If common sense is background music for American politics, Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet provides the title track. Paine said he would rely on “nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments ...

Trump is not the first important American to employ the tactic of incendiary common sense; that honor would go to Thomas Paine, whose pamphlet titled with those two words helped set the flame of ...

As patriots readied for battle and loyalists clung to the British crown, Thomas Paine published “Common Sense,” a fiercely persuasive pamphlet that united Colonists to fight against monarchy ...

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, “addressed to the inhabitants of America,” was a 47-page dynamo presenting the recently immigrated Englishman’s clear case for America’s independence from ...

Paine, Common Sense. The effect of Paine’s post was immediate and electric. As historian Albert Marrin puts it in his biography, “Thomas Paine,” the pamphlet “spread like fire in dry grass.