Leventhal: Common sense for the Commonwealth

There is a growing disconnect between the common sense  solutions people are looking for in Massachusetts and what they ...

At 250, Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” still matters

Paine’s timing for “Common Sense,” the first widely-read pamphlet proposing independence rather than pleading for rights and ...

250 years later, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" remembered for helping spark American Revolution

A Philadelphia historian says Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published 250 years ago, "changed the course of world history." ...

The legacy of Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' on its 250th anniversary

250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?

Opinion: From reconciliation to revolution — 'Common Sense' and the making of American independence

Here's what you should know about 'Common Sense' on the 250th anniversary of the groundbreaking work's publication.
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Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"

Anniversary of the Publication of "Common Sense" ...
Capital Gazette

The party of common sense? | READER COMMENTARY

We started losing our national understanding of common sense back in the 1960s when we were told not to discipline misbehaving children, especially using “corporal punishment,” as that would devastate ...
The New York Times

Trump Is on the Border Between Common Sense and Nonsense

That is how Donald Trump, early in his Inaugural Address, described the principle, or at least the slogan, that would animate his second term. It’s an exquisitely Trumpian formulation — tying the ...