Late last week, several New York Times reporters reached out to me independently to share their latest discontent with the paper’s Opinion section—a department that seems to have become a perennial source of internal frustration, from the Tom Cotton “Send in the Troops” goat rodeo of the early B.L.M. era all the way through Nick Kristof’s recent two-handed grab of the Israel-Gaza third rail. The most recent entry in the canon arrived on Thursday, as the Opinion section published a lengthy essay by independent legal analyst Ankush Khardori based on his interview with Kathy Ruemmler, a top Goldman lawyer and Obama White House counsel whose friendly exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein have drawn scrutiny in the Times’s own pages.