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Historically, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only US President to have served more than two terms in that office. Since then, the unofficial tradition established by George Washington was enshrined into the US Constitution via the 22nd Amendment. It limits Presidents to two terms, or 1 term of...

Am I right in thinking one can still send/receive DMs when on a requested fishing trip?

DISCLAIMER: No adding addition territory to the United States, that's cheating and not the purpose of the question. Looking at the number of states on the West Coast of the continental US compared with the East its very lopsided with only 3 states on the West Coast compared to the 14 of the...

One thing we don't talk enough about in alternate history is World War II generally and Nazi Germany more specifically. We also don't seem to yet have a thread on this specific issue so given today's date (with apologies to everyone points east of the Caspian Sea) what if Claus von Stauffenberg...

In the interests of balance, a companion piece to my thread on the Democratic Party fading away following the American Civil War. Throughout the 1920s, and indeed largely since the end of the American Civil War, the Republican Party dominated national politics. When the seemingly boundless...

The period from the end of the American Civil War through to the early decades of the twentieth century saw a period of dominance by the Republican Party. In the years from 1860 to 1932, the Democrats only won (per the electoral college anyway) the presidency a grand total of four times (twice...

In response to a question posted by @Nofix in one of the Pub threads answers from @Archdeacon of Dunwich, @Ingsoc and myself prompted a brief mention by @Thande of the impact on the UK domestically in the event of no/delayed First World War in 1914. Here's a thread to have at it. How might the...

Seemingly one of those cliches-but-not alternate history ideas is the United States developing a political system with the head of government and the democratic legitimacy of at least part of the executive arising from the command and confidence of its legislature. Standing in contrast to the...

Inspired by absolutely nothing in particular in the news yesterday, how might the Social Democratic Party have enjoyed better success in the UK through the 1980s to the point where they might still have representation in the Commons to today? Some random musings... Woy the Boy joins the...

How could the candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Zyuganov, have won the 1996 Russian presidential election - and what would be the consequences for Russia both domestically and on the international scene at his victory? OTL Zyuganov placed second behind only the...

Very happy to announce Reid In Braid is now available on Amazon! A special thanks to @Lord Roem for another amazing cover! Please find below a trailer for the collection pulled together by a couple of friends. I hope you all enjoy it!

That's right! The successful Seelöwe of post-War British politics! How could the Conservatives under Ted Heath and the Liberals under Jeremy Thorpe have formed a coalition government after the February 1974 election? Following the February 1974 election, called by Prime Minister Heath at the...

No, not that one. Put down that map! No footnotes! Inspired by absolutely nothing in particular in the news these past few days, what potential PODs are there for the UK to turn from one of the most stable constitutional monarchies in the world to a boorish lout of a republic? And what form...

Would anyone know for how long posts can still be edited? I want to turn the top post on one or more of my threads into something of a contents page - without threadmarking the next best thing.

Given today is the anniversary of the last battle fought on British soil, what if the Young Pretender dies before he can launch the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, and there is no Battle of Culloden? Presuming there is not another effort launched at a Rising with a similar battle, what would be the...

Whit are ye daein? Hello to you to. Whit for ye postin this here for insteid o yon scrievin forum? Well, I want to look at this from an alternate history perspective rather than from a writing or storytelling perspective. This place could do with a few more half-arsed attempts at TLs. Sae...

Interesting article from the Scotsman on a potential North Sea wealth fund, the IPPR having estimated that had the UK followed Norways example and set one up it would be worth more than £500bn today. Apparently such a fund was under discussion in the late 1970s but the economic outlook at the...

Something thrown together during my recovery mode today instead of actually writing any real content.

Inspired by my viewing of This House today, what if the Labour government had survived the no confidence vote of 28th March 1979? The final tally was 311 Ayes (that the house had no confidence) to 310 Noes, a knife edge. Had the vote been a tie, it is probably Speaker George Thomas would have...