Affecting to save people by bombing them from a great height is not just ineffective but immoral. By Simon Jenkins.

Last February [six years ago], when a 12,000-pound orca named Tilikum dragged his SeaWorld trainer into the pool and drowned her, it was the third time the big killer whale had been involved in a death... By Tim Zimmermann (July 30, 2010)

Aiding and abetting the Saudi slaughter in Yemen. By Andrew Cockburn.

The National Institutes of Health has issued a moratorium on funding work that puts human stem cells into nonhuman embryos. The concern is that hybrids might develop human brain cells, sperm or eggs.

The Sordid Ways Death-Penalty States Obtain Execution Drugs. By Tana Ganeva.

Abu Zubaydah’s sworn statement provides a chilling, first-person account of how U.S. officials tortured a man they wrongly believed was a top al-Qaida operative. By Raymond Bonner. (July 8, 2016)

There is a well-documented organ shortage throughout the world. For example, 3,000 kidney transplants were made last year in the United Kingdom, but that still left 5,000 people on the waiting list at the end of the period. A lucrative trade in organs has grown up, and transplant tourism has become relatively common… By Julian Savulescu.

Philippe Sands reviews the Iraq Inquiry, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry” by John Chilcot.

How doctors who abuse patients keep practicing, 50-state investigation finds. By Carrie Teegardin, Danny Robbins, Jeff Ernsthausen and Ariel Hart.

We tend to be cooperative—unless we think too much. By Matthew Hutson.

Elie Wiesel helped turn the horrors of the Holocaust into an industry of manipulative sentimentality. By Corey Robin.

The Labour leader made his feelings on former colleagues crystal clear. By Steve Topple.

A jarring new analysis shows how its effects lingered for decades afterward. By Jesse Singal.

Among the troubling legacies of Barack Obama’s presidency is his consolidation of the dubious legal principles that George W. Bush cobbled together to justify the Global War on Terror, explains Michael Brenner. (May 7, 2016)

Whistleblowers Cian Westmoreland and Lisa Ling join campaigners ahead of European parliament hearing on the use of armed drones. By Alice Ross.

Some people in poorer countries are compelled to sell their organs on the black market. Why not build a regulated system that compensates them fairly and ensures their safety? By Shmuly Yanklowitz. (Oct. 27, ’15)

A newly registered trial aims to research reanimating brain dead people. But even if it works, it's not clear who the new person would be. By Anders Sandberg. (May 10, ’16)

"I somehow got a TSA pre-check," he says. "I never applied, and I'm like, 'What have I done wrong? I go from four S's to a pre-check? Am I a senior citizen already?'" By Peter Lawrence Kane. (May 25)

Hanoko, which means “flower child,” lived almost her entire life at Tokyo’s Inokashira Park Zoo. By Christopher Brennan. (May 26)

The allegations against the man were serious indeed... By Rebecca Gordon.