This week a major magazine piece hits the newsstands called "The 50-Year Strategy," a big picture look at how we can build a new progressive era, written by Peter Leyden and myself.

We published this piece right before the primaries because we wanted to help lift the gaze beyond just the 2008 election, and look at what it would take over the next several decades to build a movement capable of taking on the great challenges of our new century.

This piece is a significant evolution from our “Dawn of a New Politics” PowerPoint talk that some of you may have seen one or both of us give in various venues. We have been listening to feedback from you and others who have engaged our argument in that talk, and now we have taken the analysis to a new level. If the New Politics creates a huge opening for progressives, then what would it actually take to sustain a new progressive era?

We genuinely hope you will take time to read this piece and give us your feedback. And if you like it and largely agree with it, we hope you will send this around through your network. We really need to get everyone thinking long-term this election cycle, certainly in terms of decades, if not a full 50 years.