Misguided efforts at The New York Times to eke pennies out of an ancient internet revenue model have long restricted access to the adorable Paul Krugman (pictured). Krugman, along with the rest of the Times’s columnists and much of its archives, was behind the TimesSelect pay wall.

Fortunately, if you have a .edu email address, you can finally be reunited with Maureen Dowd. The Times is letting .edu emails have access to 100 TimeSelect articles a month, which is a solid deal. Click here to get it. It’s sort of complicated to do if you don’t already have the free account, so do that first.

- Will Sommer, Blog Editor