Common Sense,” the pamphlet that helped spark the American Revolution, turns 250 this month. But despite its author’s ...

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British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of ...

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 ...