Us border thugs jailed Baxter Reid for being one hour late in leaving the US. He was not late by choice &mdash he was delayed in departure by Canadian immigration.

Countries have a right to deport those who willfully overstay a visa. But no country can excuse punishing people who in trying to carry out their visa requirements encounter delays beyond their control. That is the act of people whose goal is to cause suffering and use rules as an excuse.

The United States should give Reid an apology and fire those responsible for this treatment of him. If the government does not nip this in the bud, soon we will hear about visitors that were jailed because they had a heart attack before their visas expired, or their departure flight was canceled, or their taxi had a collision on the way to the airport.

Wisconsin had a law that denied human autonomy automatically to every pregnant women who had a history of using certain drugs. It has been ruled unconstitutional.

Women have a moral obligation to the good health of babies they will have — if they intend to have babies. (Aborting a fetus eliminates the issue because then it won't become a baby.) But women are not incubators. Being pregnant doesn't take away their human rights.

Among the refugees imprisoned by Australia on Nauru, 50 have threatened or tried to burn themselves to death.

The nocebo effect: how imaginary damage can cause real pain.

The Tories, extractivists rather than conservatives, plan to rewrite all of British law bypassing Parliament, if nobody stops them.