FRIDAY NEWS: * " All 50 states impose higher tax rates on low-income households than their richest 1 percent, when state and local taxes are taken into account." * Wall Street wins another battle in the war against financial reform . * "The graph that should accompany every article about millennials and economics ." * Debunking fears of Islam in America. * How Obama reformed education by going around Congress. * The combination of silence and rumors in China point to an unstable situation. * Good read: Ta-Nehisi Coates on equality and the welfare state. * Ugh. Crime lab scandal threatens tens of thousands of convictions in Massachusetts. * Magnificent picture of Barnard 59 , deep within the Pipe Nebula.