This anxious century has not given people much to feel optimistic about—yet most of us resist pessimism. Things must improve.

Sisyphus appears in several Greek myths, though today he is often associated with just one. In the famous legend, he is punished by Zeus for cheating death and condemned to endlessly push a ...

When it comes to fixing Ohio's unemployment compensation fund, state lawmakers have been on the struggle bus for decades. Can ...

I have always said — and believed — that I am no gardener. I am not moved to take action by legions of snails in the hostas.

The obvious classical parallel is the eternal task of Sisyphus. Condemned to heave a boulder up a steep hill, lose control ...

(Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) One must imagine Sisyphus exhausted. One must imagine Sisyphus was up late putting his kid to bed and now the boulder thing again? Didn’t we just heave this ...

If Sisyphus were Canadian, he would not be eternally damned to push a boulder up a hill only to have it roll down before he can reach the top. That would be too easy. If Sisyphus were Canadian ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Pushing It! With Sisyphus A game about a very happy guy and his boulder. The best skills and boons go a long way, but patience is your real BFF Hades is ...

Americans are not in the world of Sisyphus or in the world of those who face imminent death because of who they are. But these stories do tell us something about the way despair can clarify ...