Sister Maria Martin, my 8th grade math teacher, had a few choice quotes tacked up on the wall behind her desk, including this one: “The least common thing is common sense.” I remember Sr. Maria ...

Ramping up to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's speech during night three of the Democratic National Convention, Oprah Winfrey took the stage to urge voters to "choose common sense over nonsense" by ...

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

Conservative CNN commenter Scott Jennings summed up the difference between Republicans and Democrats this way: SCOTT JENNINGS: Democrats are the party of uncommon nonsense. Republicans are the party ...

The idea of "common sense" has been central to American politics since the founding of the United States. Politicians still use the phrase all the time — perhaps none more so than Donald Trump. The ...

CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter said although Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees list things they accomplished at work last week "sounds like common sense" to Americans, it is actually ...

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, increasing ...