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 ...

My apologies to Thomas Paine (The Crisis, Essay I, December 23, 1776). Paraphrases & emphases added! The Daniels family are no strangers to teaching and education. My mother taught English & Latin ...

I find myself thinking these days about the American revolutionaries, especially Thomas Paine. Paine immigrated from England to the American colonies in 1774 with a letter of introduction from ...

Not since the American Revolution, when Paul Revere rode through the streets of Boston and Thomas Paine published his famous Common Sense, have Americans received a more urgent wake-up call to the ...

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 ...

Indeed, It is doubtful, historians believe, that Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence would have found such fertile ground among the American public without the efforts of Paine. Thomas Paine ...

When Thomas Paine put ink on parchment, his words did more than anyone else’s to galvanize the colonies. His writings paved the way for the Declaration of Independence. Even John Adams, no fan of the ...

Tree Paine has been Taylor Swift's power publicist for a decade. Her strategic clapbacks and red carpet chaperoning have made her famous in her own right. Fans applaud Paine's apparent ...