Andy Baldwin, Gina Biancardi and Brad Jackson appeared in the Casa Mañana Children's Playhouse musical "The Emperor's New Clothes" in 2006. Contributing columnist John McCaa writes that power-hungry ...

There’s an old saying: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The longer I live, the truer it feels — not because any one group, party, or religion is to blame, but because ...

When Lord Acton first uttered his famous words in 1887, “Power tends to corrupt, but absolute power corrupts absolutely,” he was unaware of how prophetic his words were. An English historian, liberal ...

A paraphrased and misquoted aphorism commonly bandied about in recent days goes along the lines of “absolute power absolutely corrupts.” It’s a powerful trope, and the phrase warrants original credit ...

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” This quotation from Lord Action may be the most famous phrase about how power changes people. But is it accurate? Does power always ...