Rhetoric around ‘common sense’ tends to focus attention away from climate action, but it has not always been aligned with a ...

Through intimidation, extortion and vague unkeepable promises of destroying our wasteful bureaucracy, President “clean-up-the ...

If common sense is background music for American politics, Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet provides the title track. Paine said he would rely on “nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments ...

a down-on-his-luck Englishman named Thomas Paine sounded the clarion call for revolution in January 1776 with his pamphlet Common Sense. So bold was its rhetoric that many delegates thought the ...