This magazine declared the dawn of 2009 "Our Moment." The election of Barack Obama and a Democratic majority offered progressives a chance to deal with decades of deferred maintenance on the American dream. Our agenda included tackling long-standing priorities, undoing Bush-era debacles, and taking up new ideas that emerged from both our movement and from Obama himself.

How much was achieved before the 2010 election -- and how much is possible in the remaining two years of Obama's term? As The New York Times notes, "Many liberal activists regularly complain that their most fundamental issues remain largely unaddressed." Others note that Obama's first two years were the most productive for a Democrat since Lyndon B. Johnson.