What Carrie Fisher and George Michael taught me about men, women and sexuality

(CNN)Within the span of three days, two of the entertainment world’s leading icons departed from this Earth. But George Michael and Carrie Fisher were more than iconic artists or iconic celebrities. They were icons of sexuality archetypes of late 20th-century sexuality who then defied and

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Pakistan’s new army chief: A reality check

(CNN)To many in Pakistan, Qamar Javed Bajwa is an unknown soldier. Yet on Tuesday, he’ll become arguably the country’s most powerful person when he’s sworn in as its next army chief. Michael Kugelman is the senior associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The opinions

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