The New York Times now requires about 1/10 of people clicking a gift link like this one to register in order to access the article. You can either:

• Register — you don’t need to pay — but you do need to give up an email address
• Open the gift link in a private browsing window or use Reader Mode
• Use an archive site such as archive.today to skip the paywall entirely. Be aware that archive.today sometimes modifies archived pages, and all archive sites generally fail to correctly save and render interactive features and multimedia content.