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 ...

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 ...

While the impact of these thinkers on the campaign to end slavery and achieve full citizenship ... patriots such as Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Noah Webster sought to eliminate monarchical and ...

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 ...

partly by playing Hamilton against Thomas Jefferson. “What’s missing in that Hamilton-Jefferson debate,” he tells me, “is Tom Paine, who reviled both of the monarchical pretensions of the Hamiltonian ...