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As Bangladesh approves the Padma Barrage, a 1947 novel reminds us that the best river management looks less like engineering and more like worship.

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Social activism and jazz have a long mutual history that arguably reached an apex with the resistance music of the '60s. On record, that music found a home at labels such as Impulse! and ESP-Disk. At ...

As a 71-year-old grandmother, my knees didn’t cooperate when police lifted me to arrest me at the state Capitol in Harrisburg on May 4. I was there as part of a peaceful anti-corruption protest ...

From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights landmarks trace the courage, sacrifice, and cultural power that reshaped a nation ...

I went down a lot of internet rabbit holes last month, and these are the stories, facts, and discoveries I can't stop ...

Quiet as it’s kept, Santigold helped redraw the map for alternative pop long before the industry had language for it. Before “genre-fluid” became marketing shorthand and playlists collapsed scenes ...

The self-described “world’s coolest dictator”, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, has an approval rating of 94%, supports life sentences for 12-year-olds, and has imprisoned over 3,000 children since ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

​A visual journey through the pivotal chapters of Nehru's public life, from his early days in the independence movement to ...