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 ...

The term “common sense” is often evoked by President Trump, though his “common” sense can seem grotesquely solitary and ...

Assurances of honesty come standard in the common-sense package. Those who disagree with you are not just wrong about matters ...

Because common sense is the key to understanding America’s original design at every level, America was long known as “The ...

Common sense appeals to common experience. To be commonsensical — to show “common sense, or practical knowledge and judgment, ...

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 ...