Once Dismissed As Weeds, Native Plants Are Flying Off the Shelves

A federal judge on Friday dismissed Michael Wolff’s lawsuit against first lady Melania Trump, launched after she threatened to sue the author for defamation.  “There are many features of this case that make it complicated: the prominence of the personalities involved, the scandalizing content of the underlying statements, and, frankly, an inappropriate level of tactical gamesmanship,” U.S. District Judge Mary Kay...

The Trump administration updated its travel restrictions amid the Ebola outbreak to temporarily include the entry of lawful permanent residents who have been in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda and South Sudan in the past 21 days.  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the Centers for Disease Control and...

Thirty years of policy reform have delivered significant improvements in K-12 education for students and their families. But much more needs to be done. Charter schools, educational savings accounts, and scholarship tax credits have helped. Recent legislation authorizing a federal scholarship tax credit presents an opportunity for even greater parental choice in education, at least […]

You’ve probably never heard of the term “RCP 8.5” — the highest-emission scenario used by climate scientists to project the planet’s future. But if you’ve read about climate change, you’ve seen the numbers and nightmarish outcomes it produced: 4°C of warming by 2100, sometimes 5°C, sea level rising multiple feet, parts of the planet too hot for humans. Those numbers shaped a decade and a half of climate journalism, including a lot of my own when I covered climate change at Time magazine. I didn’