For those who prefer json to ads, trackers and bloat, below is a script to fetch NYT by section in human-readable jsonp.

   #! /bin/sh

   case $1 in
   world        |w*)  x=world       # shortcut: w
   ;;us         |u*)  x=us          # shortcut: u
   ;;politics   |p*)  x=politics    # shortcut: p
   ;;nyregion   |n*)  x=nyregion    # shortcut: n
   ;;business   |bu*) x=business    # shortcut: bu
   ;;opinion    |o*)  x=opinion     # shortcut: o
   ;;technology |te*) x=technology  # shortcut: te
   ;;science    |sc*) x=science     # shortcut: sc
   ;;health     |h*)  x=health      # shortcut: h
   ;;sports     |sp*) x=sports      # shortcut: sp
   ;;arts       |a*)  x=arts        # shortcut: a
   ;;books      |bo*) x=books       # shortcut: bo
   ;;style      |st*) x=style       # shortcut: st
   ;;food       |f*)  x=food        # shortcut: f
   ;;travel     |tr*) x=travel      # shortcut: tr
   ;;magazine   |m*)  x=magazine    # shortcut: m
   ;;t-magazine |t-*) x=t-magazine  # shortcut: t-
   ;;realestate |r*)  x=realestate  # shortcut: r
   ;;*) 
   echo usage: $0 section 
   exec sed -n '/x=/!d;s/.*x=//;/sed/!p' $0
   esac

   curl -s https://static01.nyt.com/services/json/sectionfronts/$x/index.jsonp

Example: Make simple page of titles, article urls and captions, where above script is named "nyt".

   nyt tr |  sed '/\"headline\": \"/{s//<p>/;s/\".*/<\/p>/;p};/\"full\": \"/{s//<p>/;s/..$/<\/p>/;p};/\"link\": \"/{s///;s/ *//;s/\".*//;s|.*|<a href=&>&</a>|;p}' > travel.html

   firefox travel.html

Only need one domain for viewing in graphical browser -- static01.nyt.com -- articles and images look great, at least on desktop

Can block everything else