“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know,” the 18th-century British writer Lord Chesterfield advised his son. But common sense doesn’t stay that way. While it appears ...

President Donald Trump speaks during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool Photo via AP) It would be ...

Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky hit the party over what she said is a lack of “common sense” and an inability to “speak to people like they’re normal” just days after Vice President Harris’s loss ...

Magda Osman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

In a friend group, there's always that one person who loves to state the obvious, but sometimes it's helpful. These types of people use their common sense when trying to solve a problem or plan ...

In my youth, I came to understand the term "common sense" as implying that though you may not have extensive knowledge about a topic or even extensive skill in reasoning, you likely have enough 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 ...

A few years ago, a computer scientist named Yejin Choi gave a presentation at an artificial-intelligence conference in New Orleans. On a screen, she projected a frame from a newscast where two anchors ...

"Appears to lack common sense." Those five words appeared at the bottom of my third-grade report card. It fit. So many of the unwritten rules that others seemed to know intuitively, I only learned ...

Mayank Kejriwal receives funding from DARPA. Imagine you’re having friends over for lunch and plan to order a pepperoni pizza. You recall Amy mentioning that Susie had stopped eating meat. You try ...

Common sense is the product of these expectations and conventions: the set of assumptions that helps us think collectively. If our goal is to substitute a common sense founded on an inclusionary ...