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Don't know if this is just me but the button in the top right to the left of the Messages one seems to have disappeared for me the last couple of days.

Been feeling guilty I haven't contributed enough to this side of the site lately, so thought I'd bring up this old Roman POD - what happens if the Year of Five Emperors is averted and Pertinax is able to establish himself post-Commodus. Either he brings some more loyal troops to him, or the...

Obviously the more straightforward "first effect"would be in 1824 and the effects on discussion of any "Corrupt Bargain" and in any case, you know, butterflies but this entered my head after Zoom chats on Friday and wouldn't leave - in this kind of situation, given Congress expects to just elect...

So having been listening to a podcast episode on Hungarian politics ahead of the upcoming election, this struck me as an interesting POD. It was fairly close vote-wise and it's pretty plausible Gyurscany doesn't get re-elected and Orban returns to power four years ahead of OTL. The podcast in...

Just saw this and it struck me as an interesting idea, any ways people think it could happen?

At that point the result was very close, the CDU/CSU only got I think four more seats (out of over six hundred total). Presumably there would have been another grand coalition anyway, but with an SPD Chancellor. Would it have been Schroeder (who after all is not anywhere near as humiliated by...

What happens if the Stasi bribery is unsuccessful and he gets the votes he needs? Would he need to call a new election as Kohl did in 1983? And, whether the election is in 1972 or 1973, will Brandt's personal popularity be enough without a direct incumbency effect?

WI he doesn't try to dissuade the Assembly from sending the Sicilian expedition by saying it would need to be three times the size planned, so they send a fleet the size originally intended, and the result when things go wrong is an embarrassing setback rather than an utter catastrophe? Does...

The two (rather contradictory) main Supreme Court rulings on the amendment in the last century are US v Miller in 1939 ("In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a ‘shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length’ at this time has some reasonable...

Whilst I doubt it can come close to achieving its aims, is it possible for the CIO's unionisation drive in the South to have more effect? What knock-ons would this have?

Less than a year before becoming ALP leader, Gough Whitlam was about to be expelled by the Federal Executive for gross disloyalty by seven votes to five. Not having realised the severity of the situation until the meeting began, Whitlam had spent the weeks before campaigning in a by-election in...

Apparently before Irene was deposed there were plans afoot for this, to resolve the Problem of Two Emperors with a personal union. So what if this went ahead? It seems unlikely it could even last as long as the OTL Carolingian Empire, but also that even having it temporarily could affect...

I saw a discussion of this on AH.com a long time ago, but I'm curious as to people's thoughts (and I feel that ended up obsessing too much over arithmetic). Let's assume Douglas wins New York. The election now goes to the House between Lincoln, Breckenridge, and Douglas, and the Senate between...

More of a crack POD that could be included in something else than a serious suggestion in itself, but: In his youth, the man who would later, as EETPU General Secretary become known as Britain's most right-wing trade unionist was actually a member of the Communist Party (my Granddad never...

What would the consequences of this be? I'm guessing here but I assume the kid would get Franconia but not the Empire on Henry V's death (assuming this isn't butterflied) and then would be a teenager on Henry's death. As someone close to being an adult, with territory of his own and without the...

Which OTL one could have most easily survived its OTL downfall, and, probably less likely, had actual staying power?

Obviously there's a precedent set that the monarch abdicates in response to a vote of no confidence, but what else happens? Who would George IV put in his government, and would he have to end up abdicating as well soon after due to them losing support? Or could we see him doing a Pitt as it were?

What effect would it have on US political history if this had been the finally adopted text of the Second Amendment? Would it have caused issues in the Civil War? (Or intermediate wordings to much the same effect)

An interesting scenario I saw proposed by Fred Clark on Slacktivist whilst catching up on my blogroll - does anyone think this could go anywhere...

Fairly sure there was a thread on this on AH.com, but can't remember details. What happens if Henry dies in one of his episodes before Edward's conception, (or before his birth leading to a the Queen miscarrying)? Presumably York claims the throne, and the Queen and Somerset look for someone...