Me: Higher ed is in terrible shape
Fact check:

Thank you for remembering this! There is a nonzero chance that Carleton is gonna do a cookie thing for NACACers visiting the campus in October.

Outstanding retort.

American higher education is a wonderful thing.

Toughen up, Professor! There is no bad weather, only bad clothing. And there are no bad cookies, ever.

Of such blessed, blessed memory!

Other Colleges Have Frat Houses. This One Has a Cookie House.

BREAKING GOOD NEWS: There is a house at @carleton.edu where you can bake cookies at basically any time. I spent 12 straight hours in the kitchen and came back for breakfast the next morning: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/d...

Really looking forward to this...

If you're finishing Passover tonight, it is time to gorge yourself on the forbidden things. My NYT Dining story from 2018. www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/d...

Happy pub date @noamscheiber.bsky.social! His book "Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class," is all about what you've probably been noticing (rise) and perhaps hoping for (revolt). And check out this incredible cover. Excerpt below. Go buy this thing.

It's hard to kill a college. But many -- including the ivies -- have laid people off recently, for a variety of reasons. If a major you're interested in is undersubscribed, it could be ended.

Forbes College Financial Grades 2025: America’s Strongest And Weakest Schools College administrators, often oblivious to economic realities, have spent more than a decade fretting about looming enrollment declines. Trump’s slash and burn approach to education and federal spendi...

Forbes does a list too. www.forbes.com/sites/emmawh...

College Financial Fitness Colleges were under stress before the pandemic. Look up a school's financial fitness.

Hi, so glad it was useful. Try this: hechinger.org/interactives...

Warren Requests Information From MrBeast About Crypto and Children

BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE: Senator Warren has some questions for Mr. Beast about his newly acquired money app -- and his intentions around kids trading crypto -- after reading our story earlier this month. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/b...

Sixteen years pre-Noma revelations, I got kicked out of a restaurant for standing up to the chef (and up for the staff). Here's what happened: archive.nytimes.com/dinersjourna...

NYT’s Ron Lieber: ‘These people are not going to win' • An Arm And a Leg When NYT columnist Ron Lieber's wife got an unexpected insurance denial 36 hours before surgery, he started asking: why does this happen? And — given that we're stuck with this system for now — how can we better prepare ourselves?

Thirty-six hours before his wife was scheduled for a major surgery, @nytimes.com personal finance columnist @ronlieber.bsky.social got a letter that sent him reeling — insurance was denying prior authorization for the procedure. What happened next here:

Here to help! Our helper is near retirement, but she's been training others...

Dad, a Death Sentence and the Planner Who Set Us Straight (Published 2021)

My dad won his battle with ALS five years ago today. As we navigated a very tough journey, we got a lot of things right and a few things wrong. I wrote it all down not long after, and it's still one of the best columns I think I've ever written. Fred Lieber z'l. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/y...

In November of 2024, two weeks after voters returned President Donald Trump to office, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. summoned employees of the U.S. Supreme Court for an unusual announcement. Facing them in a grand conference room beneath ornate chandeliers, he requested they each sign a nondisclosure agreement promising to keep the court’s inner workings secret.

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Why The Times Is Expanding Its Supreme Court Coverage

Why The Times Is Expanding Its Supreme Court Coverage

How four reporters are examining the most secretive branch of government — and the nine justices who shape the law.

Jodi Kantor Adam Liptak Ann E. Marimow and Abbie VanSickle

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Geese Gives ‘Saturday Night Live’ Viewers Something to Talk About

I gotta say, I prefer Goose to Geese, even after taking in this piece and the videos. How about you? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/a...

BREAKING: Corporate law firms are now recruiting eighth graders for 2L summer associate jobs. yaledailynews.com/articles/law...

I just did this and did not think to memorialize it. Next year.

How to Start With warmth, honesty, and inspired wisdom, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jodi Kantor expands on her triumphant Columbia University commencement address, ...

Might as well preorder right now while you're thinking about it! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jodi-...

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Jodi Kantor Announces New Book 'How to Start' — See the Cover! (Exclusive) Jodi Kantor's new book 'How to Start: Discovering Your Life's Work' is a guide to finding a meaningful career. 'How to Start' is out April 21, 2026.

My wife @jodikantor.bsky.social, minister to the clueless, has written a career pep talk for 22 year-olds. Perhaps yours has tuned you out? The (very short) book is out 4/21/26. Preorder link in the next frame (1/2) but here's People on the deal... people.com/how-to-start...

It was a total joy to report, thanks!

Thanks for this -- I'd be curious to hear more if you are able to drop me a note at lieber @ nytimes dot com?

I get your take on the public editor though. I'd like to see it brought back. Not sure I'm in the majority internally on that.

I love good criticism, and context isn't an attack. (And this is a reply, not putting you on blast the way you just did to me.) I don't get your take tho. As someone who works there (& as a reader of competitors) that much home page play is a much bigger signal to readers than front page/dead tree.

What, Exactly, Was That Cabinet Meeting?

This story was already published when you posted -- and in a prominent place on the NYT home page -- and proceeded to get more readers than the number of print newspapers that get printed during the week. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...