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Glenn had a serious charisma deficit, so I tend to agree with those who're putting Hart forward - he could at least convincingly claim to be a new kind of Democrat, not like the old tax-and-spenders. Maybe some Southern Governor with a good record - Reubin Askew if he hadn't been out of office...

A Poorly-Drawn Atlas of Texian Stereotypes

He never actually did - his actual career was in academia, first in Texas and then at Boston University.

Well, the question is less "what fits the letter of the law" and more "who's on the board of the FCC nowadays", isn't it? I could definitely see some over-eager conservative ideologue decide to take the ball and run with it.

I second the above nomination for: Best Cold War to Contemporary Timeline: THE BEATEN PATH: One Bicentennial And Counting by @Enigma-Conundrum

Different Winston Churchill.

Smith also spoke fairly positively of Mugabe early in his government, IIRC, so I’d take his judgments with a grain of salt.

The recent death of Paul Volcker brought up some discussion of the effects his inflation hawkery had on the Latin American debt crisis. Galbraith and Volcker’s Treasury seems to be taking a not dissimilar tack to Volcker’s Federal Reserve on inflation - with the different conditions of 1973 from...

On the other hand, the internet cricket forums of this world could be consumed with the argument, “Who was the better bowler - Ryan or Muralitharan?”

@ksituan created (or at least started) one here.

every knee shall bow and every tongue confess: Texas! Texas! TEXAS!

Cabinet of the United States, as of mid-February 1977: President Jesse JACKSON (NAP-IL) Vice President Mark HATFIELD (IND-OR) Secretary of State George McGOVERN (NAP-SD) Secretary of the Treasury Nancy TEETERS (IND-DC) Secretary of Defense Bella ABZUG (NAP-NY) Attorney General Charles MORGAN...

This is a transit map of one possible outcome of Kathy Whitmire's plans to build a Houston monorail, which were frustrated by the oil glut of the 1980s and finally ended when she lost re-election in 1991. Here, a less severe oil glut means that she gets to build the red and blue lines in the...

"You, the people, in your popular uprising succeeded in cutting off the monster’s head, but the lifeless body continues to deceive you that the monster is still dangerous. No, it is not! Having cut off the monster’s head, it is your sacred duty to push down the monster’s body, not stand in fear...

It’s possible I just missed this, but what’s happened with regard to the “right to be different” plank of the Democratic platform? Has it foundered on the rocks of cultural-conservative opposition in the face of more concrete priorities like MECA, or has it led to actual policy outcomes? Or is...

Hawaiʻi is independent, and Alaska doesn't exist in its OTL form - the state of Lincoln covers the Panhandle and a swathe stretching from the Kenai peninsula north to the Mat-Su Valley, while the rest of the OTL state is the Alaska Territory. Party beliefs:

MotF Crosspost: The Comintern at the inauguration of President Anatoly Chubais, 4 April 2006. A diagram from the textbook A Concise History of the Left (2nd Edition) showing the "Golden Tide". Both images are from my TLIAW Bring Us Together or Tear Us Apart.