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Two’s a Crowd: The Invite

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Film Review Olivia Wilde’s latest explores the perils of heterosexual coupling with wit and sincerity The Invite (Olivia Wilde, 2026). Courtesy of A24. Picture this: it’s a beautiful day in San Francisco. Your palatial apartment, which you own despite being a millennial “artist,” is newly renovated. Your kid is away at a sleepover. Your back hurts, but everything is going OK—until you walk in the door, and the untended resentment bubbling below the surface of your marriage threatens to boil over.
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The United States’ Long War Against Iran

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| The Nation Verified
Our Back Pages / May 12, 2026 The United States’ Long War Against Iran The Nation was among the first publications to report the CIA’s role in the 1953 overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh.
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Teaching Poetry in the Age of AI

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By Alana Pockros Verified
| The Nation Verified
Teaching Poetry in the Age of AI Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence. Ad Policy T.S. Eliot: British poet, inspecting manuscripts. Undated photograph. (Getty) The class I am teaching this semester is an undergraduate survey of lyric poetry. It’s a class I enjoy teaching and one I offer whenever I can.
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