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  1. What would a MacArthur presidency look like?

    What would a 1952 Douglas MacArthur presidency look like? Aside from the grandiose Caesarist style of presidential leadership (the opposite of Eisenhower's "hidden hand"), what is likely to be the substantive content of his foreign and domestic policies? He would inherit the now unpopular...

  2. WI: Johnson vs Reagan in '68

    With a POD anytime after January 1967 (after Reagan's ascension to the California Governorship), how do we get an LBJ vs Ronald Reagan election in 1968 and how would such a contest play out? And what would the succeeding administration look like? The New Deal coalition is fracturing in the...

  3. Fate of a Colin Powell presidency

    What if Colin Powell was president in place of George W. Bush? There are roughly two scenarios that I can envision. First, he becomes a great or perhaps an above average president: a latter-day Eisenhower who presides over a decade of peace abroad and prosperity at home. Under this scenario...

  4. AH Challenge: How not to waste America's post-Cold War strategic and economic advantages

    One does not have to be a liberal or a Democratic partisan to recognize that the years 2001-2009 were of years of strategic blunders and wasted opportunities in American foreign and domestic policy. A president came into office at the beginning of that decade promising nation-building at home...

  5. AH Auspol Challenge: Paul Keating pulls a Mahatir

    Inspired by recent events in the region. With a POD anytime after the 2013 Australian election, get Paul Keating to make an improbable Churchillian [or Mahatirian] comeback as leader of the ALP and chart a brief outline scenario as to how things would go under his leadership and potential second...

  6. Make the 'Nehru/Mao/Blofeld' jacket replace the suit and tie

    What would it take for the 'Nehru/Mao/Blofeld' jacket to replace the suit and tie as the dominant formal men's wear suit in the modern world? I'm thinking less 'Red China takes over the world' and more of a general fashion/aesthetic shift in the West and throughout the globe. Probably sometime...

  7. AH Challenge: Progressive Deregulation in the US & UK

    As someone who comes from the 'North Atlantic Anglo-American' perspective of recent economic history, it has always struck me as strange and fascinating to read how Australia and New Zealand pushed through neoliberal market reforms under ostensibly centre-left social democratic Labor governments...

  8. What if History had 'ended' by 1939?

    Envision a world where by 1939, both the Weimar Republic and the Russian Republic (a.k.a. the Provisional Government) have survived, and not only that, Taisho Democracy is preserved in Japan while a succession of progressive presidents in the U.S. manages to head off the Depression before it can...

  9. An FDP government in Germany

    With a POD anytime after the party's foundation in 1948, how to get an FDP-led government in the Federal Republic of Germany? And what would the effects of such a government be?

  10. Economics and geopolitics in a Nationalist China TL?

    What would China, East Asia and the world look like by today had the Nationalists won the Civil War? I can't think of a POD during the war itself but my favorite one to get rid of the Communists is the total destruction of the Jiangxi Soviet state in 1934 at the hands of the NRA (no Long...

  11. AH Challenge: Make the Australian Liberal Party more like the Canadian one

    I understand that the Australian Liberal Party is more of a banner for the anti-socialist forces of Australian politics to rally behind, rather than a party with a positive, coherent ideological orientation. As John Howard would say, his party is a "broad church" who are heirs to the traditions...

  12. WI: Thomas Mulcair, the Tory?

    WI Thomas Mulcair had joined the Conservative Party as an environmental adviser to Stephen Harper in 2007, become a candidate and won in 2008 and been promoted to an important cabinet portfolio in the Harper govt (presumably Environment)? What changes would this bring to Conservative...

  13. AH Challenge: English-speaking country on the continent

    I can't think of any parameters for the POD, but how do we get an English-speaking country on the European continent in 2015? It could be a constituent country of the UK like England or Scotland, or a crown dependency like Jersey, or it could be a separate state altogether unconnected to the...

  14. Australian politics WI: Paul Keating and Labor won 1996 election?

    What if Paul Keating and Labor won the election of 1996? First of all, what PODs could allow that to happen? (Keep Downer as Liberal leader?) How would the major developments of the Howard ministry play out under Keating's third term? Port Arthur, the waterfront dispute, native title, the GST...

  15. WI: RFK as Senator from Virginia instead of New York

    How do we get Robert F. Kennedy to replace Harry Byrd Sr. in 1965 or '66 as US Senator from Virginia? Citing his residency in McLean, Virginia, Kennedy would be much less vulnerable to charges of carpetbaggery and decides to seek that state's Senate seat instead of New York's. Now, there would...

  16. Could Nixon have selected Reagan as VP instead of Ford?

    Would it have been possible for President Nixon to select California Governor Ronald Reagan to be his replacement Vice President in 1973 instead of Gerald Ford? For whatever reason the OTL course of events that saw Nixon consult Congress and choose Ford on their advice doesn't happen (Ford...

  17. Alternate US Supreme Court appointments

    Here's a game where we list alternate Supreme Court justices and the alternate presidents who appointed them, while also mentioning the justices from OTL they displaced. If possible, you could leave a brief description of their impact on the court. There doesn't have to be any continuity between...

  18. Significant Spanish-speaking population in the U.S. and its ramifications

    How do we get a demographically, culturally, and politically significant Spanish-speaking population in the United States, significant in the same sense as the French-speaking population is in Canada? (For example in this alternate U.S., I would envision Albuquerque as an entirely...

  19. Legislative prospects of Single-Payer "Obamacare"?

    If Obama had gone for a Single-Payer UHC law, instead of OTL's Affordable Care Act, what chances would such a bill have to be passed in Congress in 2009 and 2010? There were Democratic majorities in both houses but given what happened with OTL's health law (party-line vote of 219–212) would an...

  20. A longer, more accomplished and highly esteemed Ford Presidency?

    Gerald Ford might not be counted among the top tier of great presidents, but staring at a portrait of him, I have noticed that he sure as hell looks like one. His physical appearance seems to me to be the perfect aesthetic representation of an American President. With his good looks, athletic...
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