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  1. AHC: Militant Labour in power

    With a POD of no earlier than 1964, your challenge is to create a situation whereby the Militant tendency not only manages to take control of the Labour Party apparatus, but also manages to do so and enter government for at least one term. Bonus points if you manage to do this without a POD...

  2. WI the West goes Left in the 1970s?

    The 1970s are perhaps the most crucial period in recent history. Stagflation set in, leading to the development of what is today termed neoliberalism: a focus by governments on turning over decisionmaking to the private sector, weakening the bargaining power of labor, and expansion of market...

  3. AHC: A Nation of Tenants

    With a POD of no later than October 29, 1929, create an America that, by 2009, has an overwhelming majority of tenants, rather than an overwhelming majority of home-owners.

  4. TLIAD: The Age of Aquarius

    I'm taking Plumber up on his suggestion in this thread for turning my literal TLIAD post into an actual TLIAD. There may be some changes here, especially as I go through it and re-run the scenario, make some adjustments here and there, yadda yadda yadda, but for the most part I intend the...

  5. WI Marx moves to Texas?

    Apparently, he really considered doing so circa 1843. How might history have been different had Marx moved to Texas, rather than England?

  6. One Small Step for Man... (A Collaborative TL)

    Welcome to One Small Step for Man, also known as OSSM, for short. This will be a collaborative TL stretching from July 20, 1969 to July 20, 2119 (150 years later), beginning with the landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface and ending, well, wherever that ends up taking us. There aren't many...

  7. WI Inland Steel v. NLRB goes the other way?

    In 1948, Inland Steel Co. sued the National Labor Relations Board asking for a redress of what it saw as an unfair demand from the United Steelworkers, a contract that included language providing for health and pension benefits for those steelworkers. The court ultimately ruled in favor of the...

  8. AHC Northwest, rather than Southwest, dominates American politics after WWII

    After WWII, American politics shifted from largely being dominated by the midwest and northeast to being dominated by the southwest, with southwesterners Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and John McCain dominating the GOP and...

  9. DBWI: Inouye, President and War Hero, Dies at 88

    This is some rather sad news, I'm afraid. Former President Daniel Inouye (1977-1985) has passed on at the age of 88. :( Thoughts on his presidency, post-presidency and legacy? President Obama of course is the second Hawaiian to rise to the White House and it looks like he'll be the one giving...

  10. WI: Dixie out, labor in?

    In the 1968 campaign, the Democratic Party acted as a virtual appendage of the labor movement. Meany and the bigwigs of the AFL-CIO gave Humphrey much of his funding, did pretty much all of the canvassing and GOTV stuff, and came very close to electing Humphrey president. In the aftermath...

  11. AHC: Impeach Thomas Jefferson

    Thomas Jefferson's authorship of the Kentucky resolutions was not exactly public knowledge in the late 1790s. Suppose that the origins of the resolutions are leaked by someone or another and Jefferson gets called out on it by the Adams administration for violating the Sedition Act? Could he be...

  12. AHC: Springsteen-Mellencamp 2012

    Your challenge, should you wish to accept it, is to have a Democratic ticket for President featuring Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp for President and Vice President, respectively, by 2012. No restrictions on the POD, except... Hard mode: both of them have to have their OTL music...

  13. AHC: U.S. has LOWEST income inequality in the developed world

    With a POD after January 8, 1964 (LBJ's declaration of a 'War on Poverty') make the United States the nation with the lowest income inequality in the developed world by 2012.

  14. AHC: 'New Republicans'

    Your challenge is to make this: into something more like this:

  15. An American VAT

    The United States stands apart from the rest of the industrialized democracies in that it has no value-added tax. What could be a possible catalyst for the introduction of an American VAT?

  16. DBWI: Why is Europe so Right-Wing?

    In the spirit of the latest iteration of "Why Is America So Left-Wing," I've decided to ask why Europe is so right-wing?

  17. WI George Wallace won the 1958 Alabama Gubernatorial Primary?

    An interesting POD for the Civil Rights era, I think, would be George Wallace winning the 1958 Democratic Gubernatorial primary in Alabama rather than losing, as he did IOTL. Wallace ran in 1958 with the support of the NAACP against a candidate supported by the Klan; he was considered a...

  18. AHC: Switch the fates of Pakistan and India

    With a POD no earlier than the partition, have Pakistan develop into a nation widely talked about as a 'potential superpower' with a strong economy and a rapidly developing middle class while India devolves into a terrorism infested region bordering on a failed state.

  19. WI Truman on Third?

    Let's say that the Republicans flub up and nominate Bob Taft for President in '52 (if that's not a far enough back POD, we can figure something out here) and Truman decides to seek another term as President, and wins it in 1952. (Before anyone asks, the 22nd Amendment grandfathered Truman in, so...

  20. AHC: The Center Holds (in the Democratic Party)

    With a POD no earlier than June 15, 1962 (the Port Huron statement), your challenge is to avoid the takeover of the Democratic Party by the New Politics/New Left in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bonus points if the Democrats maintain their status as the majority party of the country until...
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