According to the growing number of complaints, Governor Cuomo has a long history of illegal and obnoxious behavior toward women. That he was allowed to get away with harassing women for years is troubling and raises the question of why. The answer is, no doubt, complicated and is certainly beyond the scope of this short essay. Suffice it to say that the young women Cuomo targeted are now exercising their personal and collective agency to have their complaints investigated.

Speaking of agency, Cuomo’s other victims had none. Exercising powers expanded during the pandemic, the New York governor forced elderly Covid sufferers into nursing homes, whether they or their families wanted them there or not. We don’t know how many - some say over 1,000 - died in those nursing homes. The story of these victims deserves a lasered media focus that is missing. Out of the hundreds, maybe thousands, we don’t know even one name. That’s more than sad.