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  1. Walter Mondale Supreme Court Shortlist

    Purely as a thought experiment (rather than a query on likelihood), who would be on Walter Mondale's shortlist for Supreme Court nominations from 1985-1993?

  2. AHC: Baseball substantially popular in at least two African countries POD 1950

    Baseball has a pretty significant and varied international reach, but its absence from Africa and Europe keeps it on the chopping block as an Olympic sport. I've seen threads about baseball spreading here and there in Europe, but I don't think I've seen anything about Africa. Just to keep it...

  3. Telly Savalas as Lex Luthor

    No, dammit, I have no question, I NEED no question. Just shoving that image down your collective 3D viewmasters! Gene Hackman's a talented actor, but (okay here's a question) how much of a crime against humanity is it that we didn't get Telly as Lex Luthor in the Richard Donner Superman movie?

  4. US Partisan Sports Teams/Leagues

    Let's get on the same page off the bat: this one is definitely meant to be taken less seriously. How do we make American sports utterly political by mid-20th century? I'm talking like Old Firm but on steroids (and not necessarily as violent). I'm talking like Byzantine chariot racing "let's...

  5. Best rocket launch site in the Americas

    Assume, through whatever means, the US has access to the most ideal rocket launch site in the Americas, geographically-speaking. The industrial base of the space program is still centered on the OTL continental US, but either due to territorial acquisition or a broader scientific union, any...

  6. A Henry Wallace for the USSR

    First, I apologize to the Wallace defenders of the board who argue he wouldn’t just roll over for the Soviets, and fully grant that question is not settled fact. But it’s the title I figured would sum-up what I’m looking for the best. Namely: which potential Soviet leaders would be most...

  7. National anthems of US successor states

    Due to a series of earlier events, building from a POD an acceptable number of years or decades in the past to satisfy the skeptics, the US decides to amicably split up some time in the 20th century. By strange coincidence, the new nations conform to this modern map of census divisions. Now of...

  8. What does California look like without Hollywood or Silicon Valley?

    Requesting imaginations to discuss another world more than discussions of what the problems are to achieving this. Imagine a world where sound cinema comes early, moving the bulk of production onto sound stages while the NYC metro area is still the center of the industry. Now imagine...

  9. AHC: "Nexis" becomes a verb like "Google"

    Watching The War Room, the documentary following the Clinton campaign in '92. George Stephanopoulos just praised James Carville's phrase, "It's the economy, stupid," by stating, "I bet if you Nexis it you'd get about a thousand results." Priceless. So just for laughs, how do we get LexisNexis...

  10. AHC: Have a US state adopt a different parliamentary system

    Apologies if this has been done before, I tried some keyword searches. Basically I was thinking about the possibility of a state where the governor is more of a ceremonial role and real executive authority rests in the legislature. This could be an OTL state or an alternate one. While I'm...

  11. Plausibility of Yiddish Policemen’s Union

    I know we’ve got the media forum, and if this is misplaced apologies and please move it. But I’m less interested in discussing media than in a plausibility check. First, is killing Anthony Dimond enough to get the ball rolling on Alaskan resettlement of Jews? Seems a little too neat. Second...

  12. My Neighbor Totoro as alternate history

    Just thought I’d share this essay I happened across (I think it was linked directly from Wikipedia, but the tab’s been open on my browser for a while and I honestly don’t recall). It (in its very dense, academic way) argues that Totoro should be seen as a work of alt history where the People’s...

  13. Challenge: Always Something On

    It's election night and I've got broadcast TV turned on for the first time since...well, November 2016. Flipping around trying to avoid commercials and noticing that (as I remember from my younger days) all the networks broadcast their commercials at the same time. This must be by agreement...

  14. A Different Star Trek Voyager Finale

    I'm going through a complete re-watch of the entirety of Star Trek and have reached the finale of Voyager. I'm writing this as a fan of the show. While it certainly has its flaws, I find it also has a lot to offer. If I have a problem with the finale, it's that it doesn't give us any time to...

  15. Roosevelts All the Way Down

    Just to annoy everyone. :openedeyewink: 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt 1948: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. 1952: Eleanor Roosevelt 1956: Eleanor Roosevelt 1960: Archibald Roosevelt 1964: James Roosevelt II 1968...

  16. AHC: No GOP Obstructionism 2009

    Apologies if this has been done before, the search function is never perfect. Let's put the POD vaguely in election season for the 2008 presidential race (which of course runs back to at least 2007) but I want a butterfly net over the election results, so Obama and the OTL 111th Congress are...

  17. Playing with Mirrors
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    Prologue August, 1965 “Doc, you’ve got that look on your face.” “Ron...I’m afraid it’s not good news. The results came back; we found a malignancy.” The next few minutes pass in a blur of technicalities, but he finds his eyes and attention glued to the x-ray projection of his throat on...

  18. Deadlock: What Happens if Nobody Wins (Atlantic Monthly, Oct 1980)

    I just found this fascinating article from The Atlantic written before the 1980 election. It discusses a scenario where Anderson's candidacy denies any of the candidates an electoral victory and the House deadlocks over choosing the president. The most interesting thing about it to me is how...

  19. Maryland Annexes Virginia

    As per the plan laid out in this article. The proposal is from 1861, so we have a few years of possible PODs to create a more acrimonious post-war Union that might enact this. Delaware and (West) Virginia would probably be totally fine with this, and demographically the parts of Maryland they...

  20. Alt Senate Republican Leadership 2008

    Let's say Mitch McConnell loses his seat in 2008 (for reasons peculiar to him; hot mike incident about filthy coal miners the day before election day, or whatever it takes). Let's also say that Jon Kyl is still planning on retiring when his term is up in four years. 1) Does Jon Kyl agree to...
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