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 ...

President-elect Donald Trump comes to address the crowd during an election night party in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) One must imagine Sisyphus exhausted. One ...

"But to write my own story, to have closure no matter the outcome, it’s a gamble I’m willing to take — to climb even if there is no summit," Gao writes.

Like the mythological Sisyphus who was damned to push a boulder up a mountain for eternity, the FTC has created a task for itself that is unlikely to end.

Even Sisyphus was happy, according to Camus, because “the struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart.” Simply put, he had something to keep him busy.