By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For those who observe Thanksgiving on Thursday, Nov. 26, the celebration this year may be very different from those of previous years. Like everything in 2020, the holiday has been impacted by covid-19 pandemic shutdowns and financial cutbacks brought on by a global economic recession. But the true meaning of Thanksgiving — the act of taking time
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By RICH GRANT and SID WILSON One of the great ironies of recent history is the talk about the need for a “wall” between the United States and Mexico. In 1829, there was a legitimate need for this wall. Not to keep people out of the United States, but to keep them in! That was because, in 1829, Mexico offered
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By MATT SEDDON Rector of Christ Church Mexico City In 1514, five years before Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of what is now México, the first Spanish priest ordained in the Americas, Bartolomé de las Casas, realized something was terribly wrong. He had benefited from the Spanish colonial encomienda system, which granted the labor of natives to the Spanish.
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