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. The ...

Conservatives and Republicans tend to rely on common sense, while Democrats and liberals rely on expert opinion, and both approaches are valid in their own way.

The Supreme Court decision upholding a Texas law intended to protect kids from exposure to Internet pornography was a win for common sense and common decency.

Common sense lets us know where we stand, the reality that we face. It is only when we are honest with ourselves that we can make true and meaningful progress.

The term “common sense” is often evoked by President Trump, though his “common” sense can seem grotesquely solitary and unique, as for example when he cruelly shut down the USAID program ...

These are the times that try men’s souls.” Thomas Paine begins the first of his “The American Crisis” essays with ...

They displayed great confidence in the wisdom and common sense of the American people. Perhaps if they came back for a rewrite, they might feel the need to state what 237 years ago could go ...

Common sense is surprisingly rare when it comes to nutrition. ... However, this doesn’t mean you need to monitor everything that enters your body and track or count calories.

Common sense, in this context, emerges as a call to return to when things were “normal.” It is the comfort food of thinking. For many people, there is solace in turning to what is familiar and ...

“Common Sense” was more than a rallying cry; it was Paine’s effort to forge an American identity rooted in a commitment to self-governance and trust in the power of the many — not the few.

Common Sense Media, an advocacy organization that reviews and researches media's effect on kids, studied real-life phone use of 200 teens for its report, which Kate Snow shared exclusively on ...