Ron Lieber

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...

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...