The headline of a recent New York Post editorial — "Associated Press Turns Prostitute" — decried the AP's admission that it had taken more than $8 million from organizations to publish articles about climate change.

For regular readers of this column, the determinative role independent voters played in last week’s elections likely came as no surprise.

EPA has proposed a new estimate for the social cost of carbon emissions, nearly quadrupling an interim figure that has already drawn legal challenges from a host of Republican-led states.