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 ...

In his pamphlet “Common Sense,” published in Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Paine wrote, “Absolute governments, (tho’ the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are ...

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 ...

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 ...

We also reported the facts behind a popular meme about other purported quotes from three Founding Fathers – Jefferson included – and author Thomas Paine, titled, "Damn Those Pesky Facts." ...