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By choosing Ms. Adams as her nominee for lieutenant governor, Gov. Kathy Hochul created the first all-woman major-party ticket in New York State history.

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I recently walked into my politics class at Sarah Lawrence College prepared to discuss civic protest. The prompt was ...

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