Canned food donation bins for impoverished Walmart employees are popping up in Walmart stores this holiday season. Today, protesters left this huge food bin outside of Walmart heiress Alice Walton's zillion-dollar Manhattan condo. Ha. [Pic via]

The business world is giddy and agog at the rip-roaring return of mergers and acquisitions. M&A is back! Just yesterday, two mega-deals worth $100 billion were announced. Some people are getting very, very rich. The deserving people, that is.

Ever since Thomas Piketty's coming out party, debate has raged in America over the implications of inequality of wealth and income. A new research paper shows just how much the extremely rich—the top tenth of the top 1%—have taken control since the 1980s.

New York City real estate is too expensive to afford for most people who are not foreign billionaires. Mayor Bill De Blasio has vowed to build or preserve 200,000 new units of affordable housing in the next decade. Is that even possible? The experts say: Uhhh.....

Alice Walton, an heir to the Walmart fortune, is worth $35 billion. Today, a lot of poor people stood outside her house and yelled at her.

New York City is a place where a distinct lack of affordable housing meets a huge supply of luxury housing—much of which is not even used as a primary residence. The city's very richest are aghast at a proposal that their pied-a-terres be taxed.

Ta-Nehisi Coates made the case that America owes reparations to its black community. But he purposely left out the details of what a reparations program might look like. We will now make a proposal, for your consideration.

We are two short years away from the 2016 presidential election, and potential Republican candidates are already taking every opportunity to prove how much they detest the poor.

Last week, we received an email from a current Walmart manager in Oklahoma asking to share his story. Below is his description of the policies that America's largest employer uses to pit managers against low-level employees, for the benefit of the richest family in America.

It is not easy to find housing in big cities. In New York City, apartments are both expensive and hard to come by. Among the many ways to address this problem, here is one that should please almost everyone: make rich people live in the fucking apartments they own.

It is easy to feel as though average citizens have no real power over the monetary scams, schemes, and predations of rich and powerful people and corporations. Not true. All of us hold a power that amount of money can buy: the power of our approval.

Happy bank earnings day! You'll be happy to learn that both Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have already reported higher than expected second quarter profits. Seems like a good time to let you know that the top 1% is even wealthier than we thought.

Steve Forbes, the wealthy Forbes family heir, has accomplished little of note in his life except presiding over the decline of the Forbes media empire, and losing badly in a run for President. We'll give him this, though: he is an amazing troll.

After decades of rising income inequality (and a nudge from Occupy and Thomas Piketty), it's finally "cool" to talk about taxing the hell out of the grotesquely wealthy in order to make our world somewhat more equal. Let's examine an argument against this sort of taxation, to see why it is weak.

The combined worth of the cartoon villain-esque Koch brothers is now more than $100 billion. The combined worth of six members of the Walton family is now $145 billion. These are The Presidents of the United States of America.

President Obama plans to use executive action to expand the number of American workers eligible for overtime pay. For those conservatives whose hackles are raised, take heart: Obama is tossing pebbles against a huge, advancing monster of inequality that may not be slain in this generation.

Last year, hedge fund founder George Soros made $4 billion. Five other hedge fund men made more than $1 billion. This, while hedge funds on the whole did much, much worse than a simple stock fund. Which brings us to the topic of socialism.

Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and one of the world's most prominent—and controversial—moral philosophers. He's written influential works on poverty, charity, and euthanasia, and is considered a founder of the modern animal rights movement. He's here to speak to you.

The wealthier portion of Baton Rouge, Louisiana wants to spin itself off into its own little school district, leaving the poorer portion of the city with far less revenue for schools. This is, sadly, a trend that shows no sign of abating.

After wealthy venture capitalist Tom Perkins wrote a letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal comparing Nazi Germany's war on Jews to America's "war" on the rich, he could only find one media outlet extreme enough to voice its support: the Wall Street Journal's editorial page.