What distinguished America’s Revolutionary War heroes was the purpose for which their actions were carried out -- the right to live free.

Words have power. Sometimes they whisper.Sometimes they roar. And every once in a while, they shake the foundations of ...

Thomas Paine, who turns 289 this year, is the most modern of the Founding Fathers — and he has Jersey connections.

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

Daily perspectives on culture and politics from voices that matter. Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” faced enough challenges getting published in its own time. Its call for American independence in 1776 ...

Our Commonwealth and indeed our country are suffering from a lack of common sense. Two hundred and fifty years ago this month, Thomas Paine released his 47-page pamphlet “Common Sense.” It was a ...

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 ...