The White House is putting out the word that Obama is keeping his powder dry on issues like comprehensive immigration reform and expanded background checks on guns, two initiatives that ran aground in Congress this year. That hesitancy likely signals a desire to keep working with Congress on those matters, bringing more public buy-in and the ability to institute more sweeping reform. The president has held back on taking other executive actions, despite pressure from activists, especially on gay rights and broader immigration reform. Examples include changes to the ACA, actions on firearms, limits on greenhouse gases, changes to IRS rules that affect political action committees, and deferring deportation of young illegal immigrants. Obama has shown clear willingness to use executive power to effect policy without Congress. “Between now and the 20th of January 2017, there will be many opportunities for him to do things, even if Congress doesn’t cooperate.” “It has to do with the inherent powers of the presidency,” says Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey. And for Obama, analysts say, despite the rough rollout of the ACA, there’s plenty of juice left in his presidency – especially with more than three years to go.Ĭooperation Biden at the UN: Old-school internationalism faces a test Still, the early rumblings of 2016 are a sideshow compared with the present challenge of being president. That last point might say more about the media than about presidential politics, though in the modern era, it’s not too soon to be strategizing about the next race. And New Jersey’s voluble Republican governor, Chris Christie, has sent clear signals he’s running, setting up a delicious potential matchup.
Hillary Rodham Clinton practically has the Democratic nomination locked up without even announcing, if the prevailing narrative is to be believed. The Obamacare mess has also sent the president’s job approval ratings and personal popularity south, depleting his political capital and harming Democrats’ prospects in the 2014 midterms – particularly in the Senate, where Democratic control is in jeopardy.Īnd in perhaps the final sign that Obama may be sliding toward lame-duckery, political media have been obsessed by the 2016 presidential race almost since the moment Obama was reelected. That distracts from efforts toward new accomplishments, be it immigration reform or a long-term budget deal or climate change. Obama will spend the rest of his presidency trying to prove the law can or will work. The disastrous rollout of, followed by the flap over canceled policies and other effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), means Mr. The “L word” – as in “lame,” followed by “duck” – is already creeping into the conversation on President Obama’s second-term woes. Nashville became the first city in the South to desegregate. “This is a true account of Nashville at that time,” says Ms. WLAC’s disc jockeys used coded language to tip off listeners where civil rights protests were taking place. The book doesn’t shy away from his experience of Jim Crow-era bigotry.“The heart of the book is to try and get us to better understand each other as Gab and Sou learn to better understand the other’s culture and upbringing and what made them the way they were,” says the author.In 1956, a Black college invited white students throughout Music City to a historic concert featuring Little Richard. It tells a parallel story of Black businessperson Sou Bridgeforth, whose Nashville nightclub attracted the R&B stars getting airplay on WLAC. Blackman says her book isn’t a white-savior narrative. “They were identifying with the musicians that were writing these lyrics.”Ms. The Black musicians on WLAC reached ears across the United States, including those of a young Bob Dylan.“When it really started changing the world is when white teenagers joined that community,” says Ms. But he came to oppose segregation after daily interactions with performers such as Louis Jordan and B.B. In his youth, he’d performed in minstrel shows in blackface. Blackman was motivated by profit, not social justice. Blackman’s granddaughter Paula Blackman, who wrote the book.Mr. He persuaded WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee, to begin nighttime broadcasts of “race music.”“There were so many African Americans living in rural poverty, and this gave them. In 1946, radio advertising salesperson Gab Blackman spotted an untapped market: Black listeners.
Can music change the world, as Beethoven claimed? A new book, “Night Train to Nashville,” chronicles how a radio station did just that.
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