by offering sinecures for their loyal but otherwise unemployable cronies, and by spinning off lobbying and speaking fees (the original font of their $100-million-plus personal fortune and the ...

Supplicants of every stripe, from ambassadors to public servants seeking lifetime sinecures as federal judges and the like, stayed there. So did five people who were later granted presidential ...

The VA has improved in recent years, but it still doesn't serve veterans well enough. Two major, systemic reforms should be adopted.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court’s observation last month that Real Estate Regulatory Authorities (RERAs)—which were set up to ...

Supreme now in the domestic area, Albert began putting affairs in Germanic order, reducing or eliminating long-standing sinecures and perquisites. As he confided sweepingly to the Duke of ...

The biggest victories of these redirected revolutions are often “social justice sinecures,” or carved-out positions for the elites among supposedly marginalized groups. According to al-Gharbi, elite ...

The Clinton Foundation is like no other president-sponsored nonprofit enterprise in recent memory — offering a clearing house for Clinton-family jet travel and sinecures for Clintonite ...

Or, at least in theory, none. There are plenty of examples in history where individuals were granted sinecures (parish livings; Royal positions) and where, in practice, the incumbent did not work ...

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or the likes of Pankaj Mishra and Priyamvada Gopal holding comfortable academic sinecures in the West. A true decolonisation of India in practice would have meant wrecking the entire edifice of ...

CJI D.Y. Chandrachud’s recent admission that he decided the Babri Masjid dispute in favour of Hindus, after he prayed to god ...