Ah, a WSJ.com article behind a paywall... Usually it can be bypassed by browsing in Chrome's incognito mode. But this time it wasn't working for me.
A little research and I found that WSJ.com secretly scores users who browse their site, and present them with either a "hard" or "soft" paywall depending on the likelihood of them buying a subscription: https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/after-years-of-testing-the...
So based on a hunch, I simply enabled mobile device view (selecting the "Pixel 2" device type), which modifies the user-agent string so that the web server thinks you are browsing from mobile, and it worked! It bypassed the paywall for this article. My hunch was that the scoring system probably assumes mobile users are less likely to buy a subscription because it's a PITA to enter credit card info on a mobile, and is more likely to give them a soft paywall, eg. free browsing of article for 24-hours.