Common sense is getting a bad name. Politicians often use it as an excuse not to apply critical thinking. Common sense is getting a bad name.

If you think federal regulators care about data-driven, evidence-based policymaking, a case currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will leave you scratching your head.

But here are 8 rare traits of people who have common sense, according to psychology. ... The researchers defined social perceptiveness as someone's ability to understand what others are thinking.

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” as the saying goes. Yet high-quality preventive care is out of reach for ...

Use common sense, and be loud about it when you have to. And always use it for those in need. We haven’t had common sense in some time. If Trump has to set some fires to restore it, I’m all ...

From a 1925 essay about common sense by GE Moore and the thinking of Wittgenstein, to ideas in politics today, Matthew Sweet and guests debate what 'common sense' means. In 1925 the philosopher GE ...

It will be “a revolution of common sense.” That is how Donald Trump, early in his Inaugural Address, described the principle, or at least the slogan, that would animate his second term.