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 ...

The past few years has seen an insurgence of rap imports from the U.K., as grime and Afro-beat both continue to gain strongholds within the borders of the U.S. One Brit that has been able to find ...

Editor’s note: Catherine Havasi is CEO and co-founder of Luminoso, an artificial intelligence-based text analytics company in Cambridge. Luminoso was founded on nearly a decade of research at the MIT ...

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 ...

Having common sense is a distinct type of intelligence, one that differs from being book-smart. People with common sense use their innate street smarts, especially when it comes to making life's ...

Throughout human history, survival and the formation of complex societies have heavily depended on knowledge. Equally crucial are the assumptions about what others perceive as true or false, namely ...

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 ...

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 ...

How many of us have been admonished, "Use your common sense!" In actuality, the person has no idea what they are talking about, unfair to you. Reality and truth are not the same. We confuse the idea ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Actor Ian Ruskin highlights Thomas Paine's language in "Common Sense" through his portrayal of author. In 1774, Englishman Thomas Paine arrived in ...