Eat your heart out, labor activists! Venezuela raises the minimum wage by 30 percent.

The World Health Organization reports on the alarming prevalence of drug-resistant bacteria around the world. Bacteria that lurk in hospitals are a particular threat, including one strain that causes pneumonia and blood infections.

The Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin hasn’t pledged to restore key parts of Scott Walker’s efforts to rein in public sector unions.

Libya is still struggling, to put it mildly, in the aftermath of regime change. Militants storm the country’s parliament with alarming regularity, while jihadists help themselves to the military bases American forces left behind.

A charter school leader who promotes school reform is facing off against California’s sitting Superintendent of Public Instruction. Both are Democrats, of course. Is this a sign that the bluest of states may soon break with the teachers’ unions?

Toyota’s move from California to Texas is another clear win for red governance over blue when it comes to jobs.

House and Senate Republicans are preparing legislation in support of charter schools, while Democrats target “college affordability.” Both parties play to their bases as the midterm elections approach.

College enrollment is way down as more high school grads choose work over school. After years of bleak prospects for workers without bachelor’s degrees, that’s good news indeed.

Americans still rank student loans as their greatest financial problem well into their forties.

As if 3D printers don’t have enough wow factor, imagine them in the service of humanitarian causes. A team of innovators in Los Angeles, for instance, uses them to make prosthetic limbs for African children.