Paine was a penniless immigrant from England who came to America later than the other Founders: 1774. He fell in love with America’s rugged democratic spirit and worked as an editor for a ...

Americans have a right to assemble and a right to petition for the redress of grievances. They will use those rights this ...

Soon, Paine’s pamphlet was everywhere — whispered by soldiers in Valley Forge tents, shouted in Philadelphia taverns, quoted in sermons. With half a million copies sold by the end of the ...

For years, tenants at the Thomas Paine Square Apartments, a 98-unit federally subsidized housing block in the Fillmore, have been living in fear of being overcharged or evicted. Mostly low-income, ...

Thomas Paine published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. He savaged monarchies, inspired the colonies to rebellion and sold the equivalent of 66 million copies today.

Thomas Paine was born in England, came to the United States in 1774 and may have done more to create our nation than anyone other than George Washington and a handful of founders. His 47-page ...

I find myself thinking these days about the American revolutionaries, especially Thomas Paine. Paine immigrated from England to the American colonies in 1774 with a letter of introduction from ...

Tenants at Thomas Paine Square Apartments and organizers met to talk about their next steps. The meeting was hosted by the Housing Rights Committee, a tenant rights group. Photo by Xueer Lu. May 29, ...

Thomas Paine was a provocateur, an agitator, and above all a brilliant writer, who had come to Pennsylvania from Great Britain and become a fierce advocate for forging a unique American identity ...

If not for “Common Sense,” the United States might not exist as we know it. Now, nearly 250 years later, Paine's pamphlet stands not just as a relic of history but as a blueprint for ...