How We Reported on the Cornell Case NYT - Home Page By: Patrick Healy 15 October 2026 at 17:09 In our first edition of The Backstory, a new newsletter about Times journalism, weβre diving into coverage of a rape allegation and talking to a critic who says weβre not tough enough on Trump. Β© Heather Ainsworth for The New York TimesStudents walk past the now shuttered Chi Phi fraternity house at Cornell University.