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  1. AHC: Make Jimmy Carter a Contender for Greatest US President

    Have him solve the energy crisis. No three mile island, malaise speech gets followed up not by cluelessly firing his advisors, but by a massive infrastructure investment program building reactors, renewables, trains/transit, and walkable cities, somehow in a way that doesn't create inflation...

  2. McCain vs Clinton in 2008?

    Clinton would almost certainly have picked Obama as her VP, so her campaign would be able to tap into his charisma and messaging to a certain degree.

  3. What would the Soviet Union do about global warming?

    The biggest thing the Soviets would do about global warming, once concern over it became widespread, would be to serve as an alternative diplomatic pole for the global negotiations. The defining feature of climate negotiations since Kyoto has been that the world's sole superpower refuses to...

  4. How big can the Roman Empire get?

    A grandiose Roman Empire would also benefit from having a much stronger naval frontier tradition. A Rome that has more self-sustaining trade and naval strength in the border seas (North Sea, maybe Baltic, Black Sea, greater Arabian Sea) would be in a much stronger position to expand and defend...

  5. AHC: What would it take for the USSR to survive

    Better management of the Aral Sea, and central asian irrigation generally. Better soil management and less ambitious export targets could help. The great northern river reversal would in theory enable tremendous long term economic potential, but would be very costly and likely produce all...

  6. AHC: Save Catharism

    Introduce firearms and the printing press much sooner.

  7. AHC: A Woman is Elected US President by 2000

    Going back a little earlier, Eleanor Roosevelt could have a shot. She's a plausible VP candidate from 1940-1952; if Franklin declines a third or fourth term, or by a democrat after he dies who wants to run on the New Deal legacy.

  8. AHC: GOP holds House in 1874

    Bail out the Northern Pacific Railroad, funded by using silver to expand the monetary supply.

  9. What Should Carter Have Done Differently?

    Expanded Amtrak and electrified transit projects, supported Navy-operated nuclear reactors. He needed a plan to prevent an oil crisis, and he never produced one. He cut Amtrak routes as a cost saving measure just in time for the 2nd oil shock, when Amtrak ridership jumped, but didn't have the...

  10. What would it take for British dominions to be given their own monarchs?

    A revolution, invasion, or some other defeat of the monarchy in the home islands could lead that way. It'd probably help to have the respective Windsors marry into the local aristocracy, which could be done in the Raj as soon as necessary post-Victoria.

  11. Intervention for the Union

    Russia sent ships to deter British intervention, and to get them free to manuever in case Britain or France intervened in Poland. They had a decent morale impact, and may have fought a confederate raider off from San Fransisco.

  12. WI: Mitch McConnell lost reelection in 2008?

    Republican obstruction would still happen, but if McConnell loses to a Democrat (as opposed to another Republican in the primary), it'd have a significant impact on Republicans' ability to obstruct before the 2010 midterms. Democrats technically had a filibuster-proof majority, but only for...

  13. WI: Mitch McConnell lost reelection in 2008?

    Not sure how to make it happen, perhaps different Obama rhetoric around guns and coal? Avoiding "clinging to guns and religion" might help there. Earlier and greater evidence linking his wife to cocaine and/or corruption could work. Without McConnell in the caucus the total obstruction line...

  14. Discussion: Most Radical ACW Reconstruction Imaginable

    For reconstruction to succeed, the freed slaves and their white allies will need to be able support themselves economically and defend themselves militarily. The former will generally require land reform; if freed slaves actually got 40 acres and a mule, you wouldn't have sharecropping, radical...

  15. AHC: Earliest possible Muslim member of US Congress

    Conceivably you could have one as far back as Reconstruction. There were a reasonable number of Muslim slaves taken to the Americas, and a few who kept the faith going even after a couple generations in bondage. Have a little more of that survive, and/or a greater emphasis on reengaging with...

  16. WI Women voting stayed legal in New Jersey

    IIRC New Jersey revoked Women's franchise in the Jacksonian era due to perceptions of vote-buying and populism, and in the few cycles right before they did much larger numbers of women voted than had at first. If women keep the franchise, you could see NJ develop a much more populist political...

  17. WI: Republican Spain in the Comintern.

    Republican Spain joining the Comintern before WW2 would also freak out Stalin. While a victorious Republic would be an ally to the USSR, it'd be an independent base of power within the communist movement, outside of Stalin's control. NKVD domination would eliminate the threat, but be, at...

  18. AHC: Make the Soviet Union more Liberterian Socialist and less Totalitarian

    The easiest POD I can think of that doesn't butterfly the whole thing away is to have the left SRs survive your atl October Revolution. There were a fair number of them who sided with the bolsheviks, but not enough, and they didn't have the party apparatus with them. Coalition government, if...

  19. Climate Policy in a surviving USSR

    It depends on how they survive. Environmental groups were some of the biggest beneficiaries of perestroika; a successful Gorbachev would have drastically different environmental policy than a surviving USSR based on hardliners removing him and clamping down. A surviving USSR based on no...

  20. Is a Franco-British-German alliance plausible?

    This would also be more plausible w/ a left leaning US that became closely aligned with the USSR. If there is a naval threat to their colonies and supply lines it'd encourage western european unity, and they'd need a continental ally as they would have to divert significant resources away from...
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