Five years after the lowest depths of the recession, America has finally regained all of the jobs that we lost in that economic calamity. In absolute terms, America has never been richer. Now we can turn our attention to equality.

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.

Are you rich? No? Then the servicey aspect of this post this probably doesn't apply to you. But if you're rich, you probably want to know how you can be richer, right? Here's the secret: Do less work. And the work you do, do it worse. In other words, be a hedge fund manager!

Interesting little tidbit for all good liberals to chew over: a list of the U.S. cities with the very worst income inequality includes an inordinate number of university towns.

It's great to be rich. It's extra double great to be super rich. And not just because you have all that extra money—because being super rich actually lets you pay lower taxes.

Hell hath no fury like Rob Illig, University of Oregon securities law professor, emailing furiously for ANSWERS as to why his school is indulging in "white-man's guilt" by assisting recent graduates working in nonprofit law instead of raising his six-figure salary.

A new study by researchers from Princeton and Northwestern Universities finds that America's government policies reflect the wishes of the rich and of powerful interest groups, rather than the wishes of the majority of citizens.

It's not just America suffering from levels of economic inequality that threaten the very fabric of society. It's the whole world. So the rich need to pay the piper. That is the considered opinion of the International Monetary Fund, which is not a revolutionary organization.

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.

When we talk about combating America's crisis of inequality, we talk about raising the minimum wage, curbing CEO pay, supporting organized labor, and other progressive ideas. Let's not allow the simplest fix of all to get lost, though: raising taxes.

A new report from Oxfam notes that the richest 85 people in the world have the same amount of combined wealth as the bottom 50% of the world's population. Let's take it from them.

Self-loathing New York Times thought-leader David Brooks has an admonition for everyone today: You do not understand this "income inequality" you are all talking about. People assume that just because the very richest people have ever more money, and the much greater numbers of poor people have less money, this constitutes a systemic problem:

It is a bizarre mark of progress that America's level of economic inequality has become so chronic and severe that even the Republican party realizes it must present some sort of proposal to address the economic underclass. It's like watching a gaggle of nuns plot out a sex-education curriculum.

I hate to be "that guy linking to some infographic," but here is a great infographic showing just how minuscule your salary is in relation to America's top earners, and why that Communist Manifesto book sold so many copies, despite mixed reviews.

Total US household wealth has reached $77.3 trillion, a $20 trillion increase in five years. That's about a quarter million dollars for every person in America. But, you know, not.

The very rich have their politicians, and the very poor have their advocates. Will someone speak for the lower middle class? How retro!

In America, the average CEO is paid more than 230 times an average worker's salary. In Switzerland, CEOs are paid 43 times more than the average worker. That figure is so shocking to the Swiss that they want to radically rein it in.

A new investigation by the ACLU has found more than 3,000 people in this country who are serving life sentences without parole for nonviolent crimes, like drugs or theft. Unless something changes, these people will die in prison.

The subjects of Britain's royal monarchy will doubtless be spluttering with gobsmacked rage when they hear that Prince Charles may in fact be getting an unfair advantage on his taxes.

Here is a well-reasoned argument from the economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty that the tax rate on America's highest earners could be raised to 80% without harming the nation's economy.