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Oy. McCarthy is in, MacArthur is out, and Batista is also in. Is Truman running again? I wouldn't be surprised if he's actually more popular than OTL.

It was a cold January morning. The Acting President-elect reflected that he probably should have worn gloves. But he didn't feel the cold. He didn't feel much of anything. Besides numbness. The Acting President-elect privately doubted that he was up to the task. As did millions of others...

Did that before already... Maybe we should list these on the wiki to reduce redundancy?

A successful Riordan governorship will still face a terrible economic climate at the end of his term. He'll just be a stand-in for Arnold here. Not even sure if he could actually win reelection. The state party will continue to be hollowed out on his watch. New York is easier though. Have Rudy...

Quebec, Nova Scotia... And there's Bermuda and the Bahamas, who sympathized with the Americans greatly but remained British in the end.

No, she wouldn't have. Avoid Pete Wilson's embrace of Anglo supremacy, and they might have a shot. But even Arnold was unique for a Republican in that he could win over millions of immigrant voters. And his incompetence destroyed the GOP beyond repair here. Dude's approval ratings were in the...

Keeps getting more interesting. But why didn't Truman fire MacArthur?

Haggesian Greatness It's here!! And superbly written, as well. But even more tantalizing than the prose is a horrible feeling that China might miss the Great Helsman more than they realize... Will someone be able to pick up the pieces Mao has torn China into?

Newfoundland basically couldn't be independent any longer economically. It would probably join the U.S. before long. Around a third of the population has been in favor of that for a long time, even though the U.S. hasn't expended any effort in promoting statehood there.

The U.S. doesn't care about international law for trying to get rid of a guy who gasses his fellow countrymen? Nonsense. Russia tried to impose sanctions on the U.S. for intervening without the approval of the UN and Kosovo, which failed. This was a dumb move by Yeltsin since it created a...

Bush's second term Supreme Court appointments will end it. Bush's biggest domestic legacy IOTL is Clarence Thomas. That's the difference between a President of Truman's stature and a President of Bush's stature.

Say goodbye to Roe v. Wade, for starters... In general, Bush would do a better job in foreign policy than Clinton. But given his refusal to push for Baker's proposal for a Marshall Policy for the Soviet Union when his popularity was sky-high, I can't say that he comes across as a...

Obviously. I doubt a hypothetical Al Gore presidency would, either. But this assumes that Gore and McCain wouldn't prevent 9/11, which seems to have been a colossal fuckup by the Bush Administration the more 2001 documents enter into the historical record...

Here are perspectives from an American Zionist and an American Palestinian commentators:

What on earth are you referring to? No agreement was ever near enough in reach that it fell apart at the 11th hour.

Technically this is before 1922 but... The National Communists supported expansion into Turkey and Iran, which was more likely than one would think at the time. But the Bolsheviks decided to be pragmatic instead.

Let's hope that's that.

The Nazis were instrumental to accelerating that drive to the point when a Jewish state became nigh-inevitable. Without the Nazis there's a chance that Zionist colonists continue to drift away from the enterprise. The Palestinians will eventually revolt like IOTL, and at that point Jewish...

Defence Scheme No. 1, until the British come save them. But there's a good chance Britain just abandons Canada, because defeating the United States in a North American land war was basically impossible by the time of War Plan Red. Canada is annexed and the provinces become states (PEI is...

Nixon was many things, but he wasn't a quitter. The man engineered his own rehabilitation. The POD for this would probably have to be his '68 misdeeds being exposed. Colloquial (if not strictly constitutional) treason is a lot harder to make a comeback from than suppressing a burglary.