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
Elinor Langer : The story of how the Hawaiian people lost their homeland--and their continuing quest to win it back.
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From our archives: The Nation addressed the question of annexation in 1898.
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Here's how the US Congress addressed the issue.
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The first overseas acquisition of the United States was not Hawaii, but Midway, claimed under the Guano Act of 1856.
In 1964, John Dominis Holt, one of the first voices of the Hawaiian renaissance, discussed his heritage.
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In 1893, The Nation raised a warning about how colonization would affect the state of the union.
Elinor Langer : Find out more about Hawaiian history in books and videos--and on the Web.
Hawaiian activists call on the US left to help stop massive military expansion and federal legislation that would stifle their quest for independence.
Readers weigh in on the cost of war, efforts to smear Obama and gas-guzzling Hummers.
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The Petraeus hearings reveal a political class--Democrats and
Republicans--trapped in concentric circles of imperial myopia.
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The Bush Administration's mission to transform NATO promises to do great
damage to international peace and cooperation.
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Mark Penn's quasi-demotion is too little, too late.
: The questions raised by Hawaii's annexation have implications far beyond its shores: the imperial past forms the legal scaffolding of the imperial present.
Stephen Gillers : How could two really smart government lawyers authorize torture in arguments that have no foundation in law?
John Nichols : His new documentary is breaking the taboo that says Americans cannot stomach the reality of the Iraq War.
The country's off-track; Blackwater's back in business; J. Goodrich
blogs at The Nation.com.
Joanna Scott : The nonsensical funhouse of Donald Barthelme's fiction celebrates the cosmic joke of life and the pathos of grappling with it.
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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A tour of the New York art galleries reveals a number of talented artists exploring the possibilities of "bad" representational painting.
Stuart Klawans : In Flight of the Red Balloon, filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien takes on an unmistakably Parisian story with unbridled creative abandon.
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Don't these people ever learn?
Katha Pollitt : What do burqas, Osama and fascism have to do with six hours of man-free exercise time at Harvard?
Stephen Lewis : The war being waged against women in Congo is an act of criminal international misogyny.
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?
Nicholas von Hoffman : If you had to choose between Hillary or God for economic assistance, who would you cling to?
Angela Bonavoglia : On his first papal visit to America, will Pope Benedict address the real problems confronting the Catholic Church?
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.
Gary Phillips : This week's episode: Kang tries the indirect route to the truth and finds some things are just tough to swallow.