The Napkin and the Noose

How Laffer’s curve, Piketty’s math, and Trump’s Mar-a-Lago feasts turned America into a banquet for billionaires and a breadline for everyone else.

Good morning! Elizabeth Wick got the email she’d been dreading. Her health-insurance premium is about to leap from $862 to $1,380 a month, and the federal subsidy that keeps her practice afloat will evaporate at year’s end unless Congress acts. She’s a therapist for sexual-assault survivors, which makes this all the more poetic: Washington is assaulting…