Before “Common Sense,” most Americans were not calling for independence, seeing it as risky and extreme. Even after ...

250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?

Instead of jumping to conclusions, people with common sense often approach situations with logic. You can always tell when someone is able to use common sense in most situations they find themselves ...

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 ...

Common sense seems like it's hard to come by these days. In public or behind closed doors, common sense keeps us safe and helps us make rational decisions as we move through daily life. Unfortunately, ...

Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab recently launched a tool to measure the concept of common sense. The CSSLab is currently collecting feedback on a common sense survey with the goal of ...

When pressed by White House reporters to explain what he thought caused the recent deadly midair collision between a military helicopter and a commercial airline, President Donald Trump blamed the ...

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 ...

President Trump and the network have used the phrase to suggest that his policies are the right ones and popular, though polling suggests otherwise. By Stuart A. Thompson President Trump’s rapid-fire ...

The advent of LLMs has reopened a debate about the limits of machine intelligence — and requires new benchmarks of what reasoning consists of. Since their public release less than two years ago, large ...