Israeli Home Demolitions Break Records, Shatter Lives in 2016,

Israeli doctors, in the name of medical ethics, defy the state and refuse to force-feed Palestinian hunger strikers.

18-year-old Idress Wazeer faces deportation from the UK to Afghanistan, where (he reports) his family was murdered by the Taliban. He says he would rather die than be sent there, and he means it: he has tried twice to kill himself in immigration prison.

Both times he was saved by a meddlesome cellmate who is too mentally rigid to realize that saving Wazeer was only making things worse.

It takes courage to end your life today in a way that might achieve some good, rather than hang on a while so that it ends later in a useless way.

Amnesty International is campaigning for Obama to close the Guantanamo prison now.

The injustice of the Guantanamo prison is not which prison those prisoners are in, but that they are held in prison without trial. Releasing all the prisoners that don't face charges, and giving the rest real trials, would end that injustice. That's what needs to be done.

Obama can do the first part, and he should. As for preventing the troll from imprisoning more people without trial, Obama can't do that now. If he had firmly opposed imprisonment without trial for years, as he should have, he might have made it difficult for a future president to restart it.

A last-ditch plan to protect the remaining vaquita porpoises: find them and move them to a protected area.

It could wipe them out, or it could save them. But since they are being wiped out anyway, I think it is better to try it than not to.