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As much as we Westerners fear the imminent collapse of Globalism, economic free-fall in which we all wind up in the poorhouse, or even another civil war consuming the United States, it's easy to overlook how rival players seeking to exploit the West's vulnerabilities have much the same...

When it comes to technology, we always hear disturbing anecdotes and read alarming stories about how it'll facilitate all kinds of centralization and population control by malevolent technocratic overlords with deep pockets and good (albeit fading) marketing that have convinced us to buy their...

Lois Lowry's 1993 novel, The Giver, portrays a collectivist, futuristic, altogether-foreign society simply known as The Community. Its residents live sanitized, planned-out lives and by stringent (even dictatorial) laws dictated by the Chief Elders. Precision of language, telling one's family...

Compared to war, culture, and geopolitics, food and food preparation tends to be overlooked in AH circles. But as in all things, the butterflies let loose by different PODs — such as farmland being either developed or destroyed, economic booms and busts, and different trade routes that pass...

With its superpower status and a sixty-year head start on all things tech, it's no surprise that ISOT American 2002 ended the way it did and secured US dominance for decades to come. What happens afterwards, on the other hand, remains up in the air. And given America's position as global...

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With food costs rising and supply-chain bottlenecks afoot, I figured now's a good time to learn a bit about gardening. Have found a few interesting YouTube channels (here and here) and some websites breaking down the basics (here and here), though at the moment, my living situation isn't...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/solomon-pena-new-mexico-republican-arrest-details-charges-shootings-democrat-politicians-homes Well, fuck. This is bad. :oops:

Death, as we know, is a part of life everyone goes through at some point — with the real mystery being what happens after our bodies give out, much to the debate of scholars and religious traditions the world over. But let's say a mischievous ROB decides to "enlighten" us a bit. Starting on...

Inspired by this AH.com thread, an inquisitive ROB decides to try the same experiment a few decades into the future this time. As of January 1st, 1980, all TV sets suddenly receive full access to modern YouTube, as well as joystick-like controls and keyboards that downtimers can use to navigate...

Hi, everyone. Just here with a few thread ideas, and would like to ask the Staff where the best place for them is? My list thus far is as follows: How Will Ronald Reagan Be Remembered? - While he may be a fondly-remembered GOP icon now, he's also widely despised on the Left for the "mixed...

It's just 22 years behind us, and already "feels" like its own detached, entirely separate period of history. Yet, the 20th century was a massive, hundred-year conga line of bloodshed, social change, and technological advancements that overthrew the old systems and ushered in new ones, giving...

By normal standards, the premises we like to discuss in AH circles can seem bemusing and strange. The American Revolution failing, the Central Powers winning World War I, even an inverted Cold War scenario (or two) where America and Russia play “swapped” roles. Certainly, such worlds would be...

Founded by a movement predisposed towards terror and social engineering from the very beginning, the Soviet Union consistently ranked as one of the most repressive, most authoritarian, and—quite ironically—most unequal regimes of the twentieth century. In addition to state-sponsored mass killing...

Some are largely symbolic and respectful of the status quo regardless of outcome, others representing gravitic shifts in the paradigm. But none have explicitly defied the laws of nature by pitting candidates operating in much different times and circumstances against one another to see how they...

Despite being an inconsistent hodgepodge of words, rules, and arbitrary holdovers from Anglo-Saxon times, the English language has become the world’s most widespread lingua franca. Thanks to British empire-building and American adventurism bringing it far and wide, English has gone from one of...

Despite his march across the continent ultimately ending in defeat, Napoleon Bonaparte left behind a legacy as one of Modernity's great conquerors and statesmen, with the wars that became his namesake having profound consequences of their own. Increasingly centralized states and the spirit of...

Despite being massively overshadowed by the Nazis, the German communists who rose to prominence in the aftermath of the Great War were still a notorious bunch, known for inciting violent revolution and seeking to tear down the already-fragile Weimar Republic. If their thuggish behavior in OTL is...

Per Isaac Arthur’s thoughts on the subject, a common tendency I’ve seen in more militant sci-fi is the presence of ground forces. Interstellar navies have obvious uses, but I find it harder to figure out how terrestrial armies would actually work, aside from cases where the factions fielding...

Having crushed Jimmy Carter four years earlier and ushered in a new, rightwards-headed paradigm in the process, Ronald Reagan enjoyed a blowout reelection in 1984. With a recovering economy, a revived sense of optimism, and Walter Mondale as the Democratic nominee, the elderly president swept to...