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America’s aging infrastructure doesn’t just mean the presence of structural weaknesses but a lack of knowledge about those structural weaknesses.

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Pegah Banihashemi is a constitutional-law scholar at the University of Chicago Law School and a human-rights-law instructor whose work focuses on power structures and political change in the Middle ...