Java 26, due in March with structured concurrency, lazy constants, AOT object caching, and primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch, has entered a second rampdown phase for bug fixes. Java ...

Adam Tooze examines an alternative, counterintuitive vision of America, as a power defying gravity.

‘The very word “America” remains a new, almost completely undefined and extremely controversial proper noun,’ James Baldwin wrote in 1959. ‘No one in the world seems to know exactly what it describes, ...