In the 2012 presidential election, early voting and weekend voting were so popular in Cobb, Gwinnett, Fulton and DeKalb counties that voters sometimes had to wait hours at early-voting locations. And ...

Procrustes the metal worker—not to be confused with Krusty the Klown—was an important figure in Greek mythology. A son of Poseidon, Procrustes was an iron smith, thief, murderer, and inn keeper. He ...

Procrustes, the cruel abductor in Greek mythology, is known for his punitive bed which adjusted his undesired victims to perfect size. Tall victims had their legs cut off with sharp metal tools and ...

The Federal Communications Commission has a Procrustean problem. The agency would do well to acknowledge it as a means of reforming its regulatory process. I borrow from FTC Commissioner Maureen ...

In a previous post, I mentioned that higher education has systematized and regularized applications into a Procrustean bed that seems to excise individuality from the process. This uniformity is ...

The underlying assumption behind Gina Rippon’s book The Gendered Brain (March 30) is that there should not be any differences between male and female brains — therefore there aren’t any. It’s a bit ...

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