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In his latest FX column, Alex Thurston takes apart the narrative of anti-Christian "genocide" in Nigeria: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/trump-nige...

November 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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In his latest FX column, @schuneke.bsky.social reviews Diarmaid MacCulloch's Lower Than The Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/sex-and-th...

$To believers and non-believers alike, it can seem difficult to pin down what, exactly, Christianity teaches when it comes to the body. The Anglican Communion, a loose grouping of Protestant denominations that dates back to Henry VIII’s schism with Rome in the early sixteenth century, has nearly fractured in recent years over the issue of LGBTQ rights. Likewise, while most Christian churches have remained opposed to abortion—though a growing number of progressive denominations equally oppose legal restrictions on it—the questions of marriage (for clergy) and divorce (for the laity) continue to rive Christian from Christian. All the while, partisans for this denomination or that insist that their way of interpreting Scripture is the one—the only one—sanctioned by God. While these divisions over sex may seem something new—a product of the internet age, modern morals, or a post-truth society—they are, in fact, a core feature of Christianity, writes Oxford historian Diarmaid MacCulloch in Lower Than The Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity. “There is no such thing as a single Christian theology of sex,” he insists, and “Christian societies and Church bodies have at different times believed totally contrary things about sexuality.” Yet, while MacCulloch tells an often-amusing story about Christians’ many sexual contradictions, he never answers a far deeper question: why should any of us care?$

October 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM

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Gretchen Heefner of Northeastern University, author of Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments, offers a cautionary tale about US military interest in Greenland: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/thin-ice-t...

September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM

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Reuters headline reading "Fulbright board resigns citing interference by Trump administration" by Ryan Patrick Jones, June 11, 2025.

June 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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With the Trump administration threatening the future of area studies programs across the country, Alex Thurston considers the field and what will be lost if it disappears: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-declin...

June 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM

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In his latest FX column, Alex Aviña returns to the connection between Israel-Palestine and the US-Mexican border: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-americ...

May 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM

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In the newest entry in his antiwar series, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins argues that the antiwar movement should focus on the conditions that make war more likely: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/if-you-wan...

May 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM

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With no better option on the table, Alexander Thurston argues that looking ahead to 2028 will require building capacity both inside and outside the Democratic Party: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/charting-a...

January 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM

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It's an expansive topic and a wide-ranging interview but rest assured we hit all the main topics: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-wild-w...

December 18, 2024 at 4:27 PM

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Without getting too far ahead of ourselves there's a new FX podcast coming out in the AM featuring an A+++ guest. Sign up now to get notified the instant it goes live: www.foreignexchanges.news

December 18, 2024 at 3:42 AM

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In the first part of a series on the anti-war political tradition, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins argues that anti-war politics is "in desperate need of revival" in the present moment: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-anti-w...

September 17, 2024 at 4:26 PM

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In his latest FX column, Alex Aviña takes apart some of the most egregious media coverage of Mexico's recent election.

June 25, 2024 at 3:35 PM

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May 28, 2024 at 2:50 PM

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In his latest FX column, Alex Thurston considers the distorting effects that a powerful presidency can have on national politics: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-over-p...

March 21, 2024 at 4:08 PM

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In his latest FX column, @jamestwotree.bsky.social argues that last month's election may signal a shift in Taiwanese politics: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/china-take...

February 27, 2024 at 4:02 PM

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World roundup: February 7 2024 www.foreignexchanges.news/p/world-roun...

February 8, 2024 at 3:36 AM

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In his latest FX column, @Alexander_Avina looks at the role the Palestinian struggle has played in contemporary Latin America: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/a-future-o...