Why have so many European leaders recently proclaimed the failure of multiculturalism? What should we make of their claims, and of the proliferating rhetoric of blame directed against Muslims and other immigrants of color in Europe? John Bowen distinguishes rhetoric from reality in France, Britain and beyond, and Nicole Newnham discusses her film about the human cost of US deportation policy.

Thousands of women and girls are murdered every year by their brothers, fathers, and other male relatives. If these killings are explained or justified as a matter of family honor, how should we respond? And how has popular revulsion toward so-called honor killings been used politically? Jordanian journalist Rana Husseini is the author of Murder in the Name of Honor.

We all know that Obama is shifting the focus of US military intervention from Iraq to Afghanistan. What we don't all know is the history of Afghanistan and its tribes and its experiences in relation to empires like the British and the Russian. Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould speak primarily about Afghan history pre-1960.