The Globalist

Paine’s revolutionary proposal to “share the wealth” from land and natural resources may help solve the climate crisis.

The issue that is poised to bring common-wealth dividends into the mainstream today is climate change.

As automation eliminates jobs, Paine’s proposal to share wealth from the commons shows a way forward.

Nearly a century after Thomas Paine’s proposal, reformer Henry George popularized a similar scheme.

Both Locke and Paine sought to create a middle class.

Remembered for his political idealism, Paine also had ideas about economic justice.

How did the United States end up with an empire — and how is that responsibility handicapping the country’s future?