Famous Are the Flowers: Hawaiian Resistance Then--and Now
Elinor Langer : The story of how the Hawaiian people lost their homeland--and their continuing quest to win it back.
Elinor Langer on Hawaiian resistance then—and now, Calvin Trillin on Mark Penn, John Nichols on Phil Donahue’s War
Articles
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The Nation on Annexation
Elinor Langer : From our archives: The Nation addressed the question of annexation in 1898.
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Excerpts From the 'Apology Resolution'
Elinor Langer : Here's how the US Congress addressed the issue.
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Guano
Elinor Langer : The first overseas acquisition of the United States was not Hawaii, but Midway, claimed under the Guano Act of 1856.
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From On Being Hawaiian
In 1964, John Dominis Holt, one of the first voices of the Hawaiian renaissance, discussed his heritage.
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The Nation on The Overthrow
: In 1893, The Nation raised a warning about how colonization would affect the state of the union.
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Further Reading and Resources
Elinor Langer : Find out more about Hawaiian history in books and videos--and on the Web.
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Hawaii Needs You
Hawaiian activists call on the US left to help stop massive military expansion and federal legislation that would stifle their quest for independence.
Letters
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Letters
Readers weigh in on the cost of war, efforts to smear Obama and gas-guzzling Hummers.
Editorials & Comment
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Washington at War
: The Petraeus hearings reveal a political class--Democrats and Republicans--trapped in concentric circles of imperial myopia.
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Neocon NATO Delusions
: The Bush Administration's mission to transform NATO promises to do great damage to international peace and cooperation.
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Mark Penn Must Go
: Mark Penn's quasi-demotion is too little, too late.
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The Nation and Hawaii
: The questions raised by Hawaii's annexation have implications far beyond its shores: the imperial past forms the legal scaffolding of the imperial present.
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The Torture Memo
Stephen Gillers : How could two really smart government lawyers authorize torture in arguments that have no foundation in law?
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Phil Donahue's War
John Nichols : His new documentary is breaking the taboo that says Americans cannot stomach the reality of the Iraq War.
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Noted.
The country's off-track; Blackwater's back in business; J. Goodrich blogs at The Nation.com.
Reviews
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book
Where Now? Let's Go!
Joanna Scott : The nonsensical funhouse of Donald Barthelme's fiction celebrates the cosmic joke of life and the pathos of grappling with it.
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Man Out of Time
Mark Sorkin : In Hari Kunzru's captivating new novel My Revolutions, a former anti-Vietnam terrorist is dredged up after half a lifetime underground.
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art
Spots, Smudges and Glitter
Barry Schwabsky : A tour of the New York art galleries reveals a number of talented artists exploring the possibilities of "bad" representational painting.
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film
Un Ballon Est un Ballon
Stuart Klawans : In Flight of the Red Balloon, filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien takes on an unmistakably Parisian story with unbridled creative abandon.
Columns
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Filling Mark Penn's Somewhat Mucky Shoes
Calvin Trillin : Don't these people ever learn?
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SUBJECT TO DEBATE
Sweatin' to the Koran
Katha Pollitt : What do burqas, Osama and fascism have to do with six hours of man-free exercise time at Harvard?
Web
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Moral Compass
Protecting the Women of Congo
Stephen Lewis : The war being waged against women in Congo is an act of criminal international misogyny.
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TruthDig
The Man Who Would Be Bush
Robert Scheer : As millions surrender homes and sacrifice our nation's political reputation to the caprices of Bush and Cheney, a majority of voters say they might vote for John McCain. What are they thinking?
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Howl
Bitter? You Should Be! Why Obama Is Right
Nicholas von Hoffman : If you had to choose between Hillary or God for economic assistance, who would you cling to?
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Does the Pope Care About Workers' Rights?
Angela Bonavoglia : On his first papal visit to America, will Pope Benedict address the real problems confronting the Catholic Church?
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Snoop's Survival: An Interview with The Wire's Felicia Pearson
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson talks to Wiretap about working through her past to get to her future--and the success she's gained along the way.
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Fiction
Strangers in the Night
Gary Phillips : This week's episode: Kang tries the indirect route to the truth and finds some things are just tough to swallow.
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