September First
The date this channel circled arrived: export contracts live, 12 political accounts frozen, cabinet vote next week. The calendar keeps its own time now.
Tuesday, September 1. Before the file opens, a personal word. This desk went dark for 3 days for a passing in our family. The briefings stopped, and your emails started. Condolences, concern, thoughts and prayers, from every corner of this readership. Every one of them was read, and every one of them mattered. From all of us, thank you.
Now to work, because the state did not pause with us. The last 3 days of headlines are stacked on the desk, and underneath every one of them sits a single date that arrived this morning. September 1. It is the day we told you to circle in America's Fortune, Babylon's Rebirth. Iraq's bypass export contracts carry today as their start date, on routes Iran's strait never sees. Our published calendar kept its appointments while we were away. Today we catch you up on all of them.
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