Politics

The Only Way Cuomo Gives Up Power Is if It’s Taken From Him

PERVERSE INCENTIVES

Stubbornly plowing through scandal isn’t necessarily good. But politicians have learned that things usually work out better for them that way.

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The walls are closing in on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, despite his desperate attempts to spin things in his favor. Reports that his aides altered a state health department report to hide the number of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes (after he ordered nursing homes to accept...

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