Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have ...

The publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense caused a sensation in early 1776 as it explained the need for freedom. But it was a second series of pamphlets published on December 19 of that year that ...

Will Donald Trump, who says he “runs the world” and approved a picture of himself with a crown above the caption “Long Live the King,” soon have Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet, “Common Sense,” banned.

Thomas Paine’s 47-page pamphlet, Common Sense, took colonial America by storm in 1776, selling a half-million copies, warning neighbors that, without the rule of law, the country belongs to a king who ...

For all the attention given to the recent rise in homicides across the United States, more Americans die each year as the result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds than from gun-involved homicides. In ...