The Obama administration’s special adviser for environmental jobs, Van Jones, has resigned, citing what he described as a “vicious smear campaign against me.” For the past month, Fox News has run a series of reports on Jones’s alleged association with communists and his decision to sign a petition calling for a congressional probe of the 9/11 attacks. Jones is the founding president of Green for All and author of the book The Green Collar Economy. Time Magazine recently named Jones one of the 100 most influential people in the world. We will have more on his resignation after headlines.