Slightly off-topic, but if anyone needs to read a NYT article from time to time, check if your public library offers digital access. A lot of them do. For example, the San Francisco Public Library gives you 72 hours of access at a time: https://sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/166904.
OP is following the same variable names of the article. I prefer that over changing the variable names and then figuring out what variable name maps in code to the article.