1990s

In 1992, three years after buying the Texas Rangers, George W. Bush set his sights on becoming Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Bush discussed the job with outgoing Commissioner Fay Vincent, a friend of the Bush's, and he almost got the position. However, he was passed over in favor of Bud...

As we know, Michael Dukakis narrowly defeated then Vice President George Bush in the 1988 Presidential election. Internationally, President Dukakis is remembered for overseeing the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold War two years later, working with the International...

Riding off his popularity from the Persian Gulf War, many wanted General Colin Powell to run against President Clinton in 1996. He was not only the one Republican to beat Clinton in opinion polling, but he was projected to crush the President in the popular vote. However, Powell declined to run...

Supposing that Clinton's affair with Lewinsky had never been discovered by Ken Starr, how would Clinton's Presidency have unfolded from 1997-2001?

Ljiljianima Babo Translation: Keep (lit: protect/guard) Yugoslavia When Alija Izetbegovic, a Bosniak politician of Islamist leanings, became Chairman of the seven-member Presidency in SR Bosnia, the Yugoslav state, previously held together by Tito and a one party state, was already being torn...

Here's a suggestion. Francis Beckett (it'll be on the Guardian website somewhere) put forward the notion that, had John Smith lived and won in 1997, a 'New Tory' movement led by Michael Portillo (who wouldn't have lost his seat because Labour's majority had been more modest) would have led the...

The idea here is that Tom Bradley, who narrowly lost the race for Governor of California in 1982, wins instead and serves two terms as a relatively successful Governor. He then sets his sites on the White House in 1992. How well could he do in place of Bill Clinton? Mayor Tom Bradley...

WI the two rappers had lived; what would the hip hop scene look like without their deaths, what happens to gangsta rap, etc?

Season of Violence: The Fall of Apartheid in South Africa (old draft) First, some background music... This is a timeline based on an idea I have had for a long time - a violent end to the apartheid era in an alternate 1990s. Even after Mandela was released from prison in 1990 in OTL, South...

"The 1990s is among one of the most chaotic periods of time in American history. There is no one way to cover this, so I do hope that this take will be as informative as possible, with takes from various figures involved in the major decisions, events, and catastrophies throughout this dark...

On July 13, 1985 Ronald Reagan had a colon surgery to remove polyps. What if, somehow, the Ol’ Gipper died during his operation, leaving George H.W. Bush as the President of the United States? How would the rest of the 1980’s and the present be affected by this?

The hospitalisation of Nirvana leader Kurt Cobain in early April 1994 marked a turning point for not only the growing US alternate scene, but the industry as a whole. The release of his group's In Utero the previous year had maintained their commercial success, and its succession by Pearl Jam's...

What if 1992 Democratic nominee Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas would have selected Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts as his running mate and vice president, instead of Senator Al Gore of Tennessee for the United States Presidential Election of 1992? I remember reading that had Clinton had...

The Other Two: A Retrospective Some bands messily fall apart, some disappear after one single and others happily chug along never reaching the top of the pop charts but certainly have an audience that is often excited to buy their songs and often get good reviews. Bands like They Might Be...

What would happen/is it possible he prevails in the General election had Fred Phelps pulled off an upset in the 1990 Kansas Democratic Gubernatorial primary?

WI British Rail had been privatised by the Conservatives in the 90s? What would the British railway network look like today?

What is this? My first attempt at a TL after having largely been active on just SW. It'll be based off of a PI observer game I ran through a few months ago on my own with modifications to make some of the election results slightly more realistic. This will only apply for the first election after...

The basic idea is Bush losing to Bill Clinton back in 92. How would a Clinton White House look like? What about his policies? Would we seen Mario Cuomo in '96 if Clinton's sex scandals came out of the woodwork as they did in '92?

The nuclear bomb has to be the most powerful weapon made in the history of the world. First tested in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16th, 1945, was the first time this power was seen, and less than a month later a nuclear weapon was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan and Nagasaki, Japan during World...

24 March 1990 The results had begun to come in. Over the course of the night it had been clear it would be close between Bob Hawke and Andrew Peacock. Hawke had been Prime Minister since 1983, and at just over seven years in office, he was the longest serving Labor PM Australia had ever had...