Ron Lieber

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...

Trump Says Coca-Cola Agreed to Use Cane Sugar in Coke Made in U.S.

The Trump administration seems to have forced Coke to become Mexican Coke. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

Exclusive | Ferrero Nears Roughly $3 Billion Deal for Maker of Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes A deal for cereal maker WK Kellogg could be finalized as soon as this week.

BREAKING: Nutella cereal coming soon from Kellogg's. www.wsj.com/business/dea...

Forget not the charitable deduction for explosives here -- and the business tax deduction for meals taken on fishing boats.

See How Trump’s Big Bill Could Affect Your Taxes, Health Care and Other Finances (Gift Article) The wide-ranging domestic policy legislation could impact taxes, clean energy choices, health care access and more.

We hunted down everything from the tax bill that just passed that might hit you in the wallet. It's... a lot. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great op-ed. This is why I've quit pro sports fandom. There are great ideas in here for laws; here's another that might be bad: I should be able to shove a $10 or $20 bill into my TV/phone/laptop and watch any, single game I want -- or subscribe to any NBA finals/World Cup for a reasonable price.

California Opens Investigation Into State Farm

Anyone who uses State Farm for anything should really read this story. And if you switch insurers, tell them California sent you to do it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/r...

We will all miss him, though I think/hope he'll keep educating us.

YouTube video by Shout! Studios Barenaked Ladies - "Brian Wilson" (5/6) 2007 HD

I'm playin' my guitar and building castles in the sun... and singing Fun Fun Fun.

Wow

Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks; employees say company is reluctant to impede its advertising juggernaut

The WSJ has the receipts showing that Meta doesn't care much about consumer fraud. One ironic twist - as a Meta advertiser myself for my merit aid course, there are all sorts of scammers trying to convince me that *my ads* are bad and I'm about to have my account shut. www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...

The best costumes of San Francisco's Bay to Breakers race Runners went all out at San Francisco's 2024 Bay to Breakers race on Sunday, sporting an array of colorful costumes

Am I the only one wondering if a group will run Bay to Breakers this year dressed as Elon and 14 babies? www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

Amazing. Miraculous, really. And this is the most interesting phrase in the story: "which built on decades of federally funded research..." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Pat Scala, whose legacy looms large in the city's Italian beef community, dies at 77 Pat Scala's family ran Scala Packing Co., a meat wholesale business supplying restaurants. He promoted Italian beef sandwiches, now universally recognized as a Chicago icon, beyond the city and suburb...

This is about the most Chicago obit I can imagine. What a delight. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

Can a $700 Calendar Save Your Marriage?

Google calendar works fine in our family, but I guarantee you that if you're partnered with offspring you'll recognize something in this delightful story, which is really more about relationships than it is about calendars. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/s...

How colleges come up with the price of admission Reporting in The New York Times finds that schools are turning to little-known consultants to optimize how much they charge.

Back on the @marketplace.org radio waves talking about who pays what and why for college. This morning, I got word that someone used my advice to get another $40,000 out of Syracuse AFTER the teenager had committed on May 1. That family gets an A-plus. www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

The Price You Pay for College - Ron Lieber Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPRNew York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice pick“Masterly . . .represents an ext...

Thanks so much for this. The number of VPs of enrollment who read my book on who pays what and why for college and told me how much they learned was... interesting. www.harperacademic.com/book/9780062...

GO BLUE!

I cannot emphasize enough how many decisions on college campuses are made by a handful of external consultants.

I Was Terrible at Money. My Daughter Should Learn From My Mistakes. Having grown up believing it was crass to talk about finances, I got my own education the hard way.

Brave, and useful, by @katieroiphe.bsky.social. It's never too late to start talking to kids about money. www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

They've followed the playbook pretty well it seems!

Who Decides How Much You Pay for College? Here’s How Tuition Costs Are Set. (Gift Article) Schools turn to little-known consultants, owned by private equity firms, to find applicants and calculate scholarships. Here’s how that affects the price you pay.

NEW: The little-known consulting firms that tell colleges what kind of aid and discounts to offer to each individual student. Whenever I explain this to people out loud, their jaws hit the floor. I finally wrote it down. Happy May 1 decision day to all who celebrate! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...

Sh’ma Koleinu: A joint message from Jews of Columbia across the ideological spectrum We, a diverse coalition of Jews at Columbia and Barnard, wholeheartedly reject the invocation of <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-sem...

"This letter marks the first time since October 7 that Jews at Columbia with varying perspectives have come together to publicly affirm that Jewish safety is never dependent on the targeting of other minorities and the stifling of dialogue."
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Penn Station’s Not-So-Secret Other Life: The People’s Dance Studio (Gift Article) Smooth floors. Public restrooms. A built-in audience: The lower level of Moynihan Hall doubles as a rehearsal space for a variety of dance groups, including K-pop, salsa and Brazilian Zouk.

Genuine good news for your Thursday. What a delight. And management is leaving the dancers alone. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/a...

Fearing Trump’s Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-Eds Campus newspapers are confronting ethics debates as foreign students ask that their names and views be removed from past articles.

Some people fear the Trump administration so much that they are trying to take their bylines off old campus newspaper stories and have their quotes scrubbed from articles. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Jury Rules Against Palin in Libel Case Against The New York Times (Gift Article) After two hours of deliberation, a jury rejected Sarah Palin’s claim that she had been defamed in the newspaper’s 2017 editorial.

Didn't take them long. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

RFK Jr. Claimed Autism ‘Destroys’ Lives. Autistic People Disagree. People in the community called the remarks dehumanizing and warned they could perpetuate harmful stigma.

Read til the end. The comments are heartbreaking... and then someone shows up to utter such a sick burn that it will make you smile and forward the story to a family that has a member who is autistic. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/w...