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I've been feeling rather inspired by @Steve Brinson 's Tomorrow, Perhaps the Future as of late, which concerns an America with guided social democracy under the SPA after a tumultuous 1910s. This has got me thinking about what other developments and divergences could lead to a similar...

As out of my field of interest as this is, I've been fascinated by the implications of a slightly larger Mexican Cession as a born-and-raised Tucsonian. Let's assume that Trist is out of the way and Polk ends up securing a cession encompassing OTL's Northern Mexico from Tamaulipas to Baja...

To say that the French right was in a pitiful state in the late 1970s was a bit of an understatement, VGE having pissed off social conservatives and the Gaullist tendency, who had consolidated themselves under former PM Jacques Chirac under the label of the RPR. It was this climate, amidst the...

Every aspiring U.S. alt-historian knows of Aaron Burr, and by extension his rather infamous persona. But, for as much of a character he was, Burr came within an inch of the presidency in 1800 - in idiosyncratically Burr fashion, by means of swindling and backroom machine politics. What if...

Looking to have a free-wielding discussion on who could possibly fill a similar niche for the Democrats as Reagan did for the Republicans. By a "Democratic Reagan," I don't mean more literal examples like actor-politicians or even that they have to necessarily govern in the '80s, although such...

rules 1. be kind 2. only i get to self-deprecate here 3. no promises

This is a goodie that may or may not be a preview of things to come. During the June 1973 summit at Camp David between President Nixon and General Secretary Brezhnev, the former, knowing full well of the latter's affinity for cars, gifted him a custom-made Continental as a sign of goodwill...

Hey you! Yes you! Are you tired of seeing Clintons in every timeline, universal Kennedys or infinite Bushs? Tire no longer, for here's a thread for figures who could've become something markedly more! Figures who are lesser-used or obscure and could've had their place in the sun under the...