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.

Anona Lee, a tenant at Thomas Paine Square Apartments, making public comment in front the Board of Supervisors on April 22. Photo by Xueer Lu. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a ...

especially Thomas Paine. Paine immigrated from England to the American colonies in 1774 with a letter of introduction from Benjamin Franklin. Less than two years later, he wrote “Common Sense ...

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 ...

schoolchildren and the public should be reading Thomas Paine’s “The Age of Reason” as applied to Trumpism: “Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in ...