For as long as many of us can remember, progressives have been heaving against the locomotive of the radical right. Now, thanks to an inspiring election and a collapsing economy, we can begin to think about what we’re for instead of what we’re against.

The policy ideas in Thinking Big: Progressive Ideas for a New Era are practical (in the sense of being imaginable within the foreseeable future), but, at the same time, bold and transformative (in the sense of pointing our country down a clearly different road). These are proposals linked, as Nathaniel Loewentheil and Deepak Bhargava write in their introduction, “to a picture of the nation and the world we hope to achieve, a vision that energizes our ideas and builds the political will for meaningful change.”