Oh, no doubt; it's what the window reveals about Lincoln's priorities that makes it noteworthy, not its likelihood of succeeding.

Only those same Islamophobic right-wingers can miss the parallels with their own attitudes towards women because they believe that Christianity is completely different from Islam. Ross and Russ focus on their differences, not on how much they're alike.

I agree with your point that slavery may have become economically unviable as industrialization expanded, but there's another aspect of slavery that needs to be considered, which is that it was the primary institution for regulating the millions of African Americans in the South. After all, if African Americans…

I doubt that the sort of Reconstruction you outlined here could have worked, given how much resentment Southerners would have had towards an ongoing military occupation forcing them to readjust longstanding racial attitudes and social institutions. This is where comparisons with World War II break down; there was…

In his biography of Hitler, Ian Kershaw made a point that always stuck with me, namely that if it wasn't for the Great Depression Hitler would have been a footnote in history. What he meant by that was that the anti-Versailles sentiment ebbed in Germany over the course of the 1920s (the NSDAP's shtick was getting them…

The Weinstein Company purchased the rights last year.

Have you ever read Michael Kube-McDowell's Alternities? I've always thought that it's one of the more under-appreciated novels of the genre.

The sad thing is that the first novel in Turtledove's Timeline-191 series was pretty original in terms of its premise and plot. The others do descend pretty quickly into a lazy parallelism, though.

I'd say that it was less that Europeans "moved their slaves to the US" then that they just conquered other places and effectively enslaved their populations. After that it was the products that were being shipped rather than the people.

Only Lincoln gave the South and additional three months to rejoin the Union before the proclamation took effect. If the South had ended the rebellion by December 31, 1862 not a single slave would have been freed by it.

You had a central MesoAmerican government in the Aztecs; one of the factors that contributed to their downfall was Cortes's ability to gain support from of the smaller tribes with grievances against it.

And when your teenage son fails geometry, you should tie him up in the basement and torture him until he becomes a better student.

Only there wasn't much of a ship to sell by that point, as the Federal government only had a degree of control in two states by 1876.

Carpetbaggers were real, but the idea that they came down to plunder the South was a myth.

My favorite was the "what if" that positied a universe where Spock grew a goatee. That one little change resulted in everyone becoming evil sex freaks.

They're around, but nowadays they mostly tie them to their summer events.

Everybody here is taking Rob Schneider far too lightly. After all, let's not forget what happened the last time we mocked a D-list celebrity who posted his deep political thoughts on Twitter.

Oh, I know, cigarette, but it's still more than a little disturbing to see a national security adviser on television expressing a greater awareness of bin Laden's determination to attack the United States than the actual national security adviser did a year later.

That depends — are we talking Sean Spicer of Melissa McCarthy's Sean Spicer?

House of Cards wasn't cancelled; the next season starts in May.