Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. May we continue to find more to be thankful for: more equality, tolerance, and social justice, more economic opportunity, fewer children in poverty and without adequate health care, more seniors whose needs are met, more scientific curiosity and discovery, coupled with less abuse to the natural environment that we are blessed with, and a future with much less unnecessary war.

I'm grateful for the progress that has been made in all of these areas by liberal-minded people and their allies over the course of the twentieth century, and while there is little cause for optimism over the short run in the United States, I think we can all be hopeful that there will be further progress over the long run.

Happy Thanksgiving now and in future years.