Our evolved craving for cause and effect once ensured survival but now fuels misunderstanding. Learning to favor correlation ...

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Experts say elementary students need to be explicitly taught digital citizenship skills, like healthy media time limits, ...

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Common Sense,” the pamphlet that helped spark the American Revolution, turns 250 this month. But despite its author’s ...

Common Sense was subversive in 1776. Maybe its ideas are what we need now.

While Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of independence and revolution, it was a short pamphlet published six months ...

A government of our own is our natural right. This was the heart of Thomas Paine's argument in "Common Sense," which was published 250 years ago today. That statement might sound exactly like common ...

Two hundred-and-fifty years ago, on Jan. 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published words that changed the course of history: “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” Characterized by Paine as ...

Florida law makes it a third-degree felony to remove artifacts from state-owned land, including rivers. The state's Isolated Finds Program, which once allowed citizens to legally collect and report ...

When did the slow and agonizing death of common sense in America begin? Some believe it’s as recent as 2024 when 70 million people voted for an “appointed” candidate and her sidekick. Think Bugs and ...

Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have been citing it ever since. By Joseph Rezek Joseph Rezek is an associate ...