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The twist ending

Stephen McLeod (Liverpool): Two Philosophies of Needs. Ryan Engley (URI): The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Played: Desire, Drive, and the Twist Ending. Nan Aron on fighting back against the fine print: Forced arbitration is a rigged game, but a new rule could help consumers. James Hohmann on how Russian meddling in U.S. election backfiring on Putin, hurting Trump. Trevor Timm on some questions for those who are cheering Gawker’s demise. Does fiction actually make us more empathetic? Miguel Conde on 5 works that explore the connection between art and understanding. Why do we still buy oil from thugs? Justin Hughes reviews Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World by Leif Wenar. So much effort, such little payoff: David Doochin on the 17th-century language that divided everything in the universe into 40 categories.