Kathleen Kingsbury (center) with her team at Times headquarters. Photo: Frankie Alduino for New York Magazine In the summer of 2020, as James Bennet , the head of the New York Times ’ “Opinion” section, was being forced to resign, his deputy, Kathleen Kingsbury , locked herself in a bedroom at her parents’ house in Wisconsin. Bennet had ignited a newsroom uprising over a now-notorious column by Senator Tom Cotton, the headline of which called for the military to “Send in the Troops” in response