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The idea of "common sense" often implies a static, universal understanding of what is practical, logical, and appropriate. It's the unwritten rulebook passed down through generations. However, history ...

This story originally published on Oct. 22, 2025. The idea of "common sense" has been central to American politics since the founding of the United States. Politicians still use the phrase all the ...

For over a decade I’ve been lugging around on my laptop a presentation describing the contrasting values and vocabulary honored by liberals and conservatives. Among those differences are conservatives ...

President Barack Obama evoked a string of other government regulations in making his case for his gun control action, framing the hot-button guns issue as one of practical, common-sense reform and ...

Common sense might not be so common after all, new research has found. What one person might consider common sense might be very different to someone else, a new study in the journal Proceedings of ...

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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 ...

Thomas Paine, a reluctant English tax collector and failed businessman who arrived in America on the eve of revolution, published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. "In the ...

President Trump and the network have used the phrase to suggest that his policies are the right ones and popular, though polling suggests otherwise. By Stuart A. Thompson President Trump’s rapid-fire ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Maryland History Professor Richard Bell talked about what was going on in the American colonies in 1776. In 1774, Englishman Thomas ...