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Just a thought. Not sure how much traction the idea will get. Here's an article from Philadelphia Magazine in an alternate 2018 Philadelphia Magazine In Pennsylvania, a Choice over School Choice looms over Harrisburg 10 April 2018 HARRISBURG. Pennsylvania’s public school system is one of the...

Southeast PA residents, UNITE! Just like it says on the tin. Say Montgomery County and Philadelphia County are never separated. Philadelphia county is now nearly 700 square miles, about half the size of Cook County. How does this affect Philadelphia? The Far Northeast was annexed by the city...

What if Saxony managed to take control of Bohemia during the 30 Years War instead of during the War of Imperial Succession? As it was, Saxony began a program of Germanization in Bohemia following the House of Wettin's defeat in the War of Imperial Succession, AKA, the war that the Wettins lost...

The year is 1861. The POD occurs two years ago, when the 1858 Congressional Elections returned an all-Democrat congressional delegation for New Jersey. The second POD occurs when Lincoln surrogate David Davis decides not to make a deal with Pennsylvania governor Simon Cameron. Instead, William...

Seeing as this happened a decade later in the Seven Years' War, I'm wondering if could have happened then. What effects would this have? Would there be a Proclamation of 1749 or something to that effect? Would more colonies be founded west of the Appalachians? Would this be enough to avert the...

We know that the Ottonians captured two out of the three kingdoms that arose out of the Carolingian Empire. We also know that 10th century France was kind of a basket case. So how do we get to a point where an Ottonian, rather than Hugh Capet, was King of France? Do they take the whole thing...

Let's say the Danes utterly rout the Anglo-Saxons at Englefield, killing Earldorman Æthelwulf and the majority of the Anglo-Saxon force. Forced interrogation of a prisoner later reveals where the King and Aetheling are located, and shortly thereafter the Danes march on Æthelred and Alfred...

How would the election of Richard Milhouse Nixon in 1960 have affected the space race? Would going to the moon have been as much of a priority? Would we have jumped from Gemini to Apollo as we did, or would space being a lower priority have meant that instead of jumping to Apollo we built the...

Let's say that Rome is strangled in the cradle. Perhaps it's Brennus, or Pyrrhus of Epirus, or anything pre-Hannibal. What effect does this have on Gaul? IOTL, the Averni nearly conquered Masallia, and would have without Roman interference. Could this happen ITTL? Might we see a Hellenized...

Author's note: there's no time like the present. In the spirit of this sentiment, we begin our timeline not at the POD, which will be revealed in time, but near the present. This timeline is as much a worldbuilding exercise as it is a history. We begin our timeline on the 26th of September...

What if, in the early 1970s, NASA painted themselves into a corner by insisting on the most outrageously expensive version of the Shuttle they had, refusing to accept the reality of post-Apollo budget cuts, and ended up stuck with a capsule-based launch system, leading to the construction of a...

Supposing the United States had a female President or Vice President some time in the 1950s or 60s (in the Alternate Wikipedia Infobox thread I'm telling the story of President Margaret Chase Smith). Maybe its the scenario I mentioned in parentheses, maybe Ike chooses Margaret Chase Smith for...

Just like it says on the tin. What if, in 1999, Aaron Sorkin produces a show for NBC about a fictional cable news network called Atlantis Cable News, and in 2012 he produces an HBO show about the administration of President Josiah Bartlet? How long do both shows last? Who gets cast in the shows...

I made a thing. Here's the original article. Bernie Sanders Wins Washington State and Alaska; Hawaii a likely Obama win This was kind of an interesting "the devil is in the details" type thing. I might do more of these once pledging is over (LEDN).

I know the economics behind why somebody like Augustus or Claudius is unlikely to invade Germania. However, give it a couple centirues, and does the answer change? Say a century or two has passed and now Germania is more developed and has the kind of quasi-romanised leadership Gaul had in the...

How do we prevent the most committed, ideological voters in each party from selecting the candidate? How do we keep it the domain of a deal struck in a smoke-filled room? How does this affect the winners in each election? It seems to me that, if it were up to party bosses, Scoop Jackson would...

So here's the scenario: In June of 1944, the day before D-Day, FDR suffers a fatal heart attack or stroke, putting Henry Wallace in the Oval Office. That August, at the 1944 Democratic National Convention, there's a movement to prevent President Wallace from getting the nomination. There's a...

Is this possible? Could the UK have a political system in which the Liberal Party was the main center-right party and Labour exists as its opposition, with the Conservative Party as a third choice? What would a system like this be like? Would the Conservative Party be a sort of UKIP-type party...

Just like it says on the tin. How do we prevent Rome from dominating the West as totally as it did from 1054 to the 1500s? Perhaps the Byzantines manage to hold onto Rome for longer, causing a Frankish Empire that doesn't want to accept orders from a Greek puppet to create their own...

Just like it ways on the tin. How do we get this kind of a scenario? How does Romney handle the Recession, and Iraq and Afghanistan? How does the campaign go? Is it close, or does Romney fail where Obama succeeded? How do the 2010 midterms go? How is the economy on election day? Enjoy