This is Wall Street Journal — not NY Times. But, I’ll try it next time.
WSJ used to send you a few articles from their editorial page without a subscription, but they stopped that several years ago.
Oh, good, you were able to access the article then somehow? It definitely works whether it's the NYT, WSJ, etc., as long as, apparently, Google has negotiated a deal with them. It's an extra step and that's a bother that's not worth it sometimes, but it works most times for me.