Madison, Wisc. Wisconsin Republicans have heard it all before. "There's a lot of hate going on in Wisconsin, and I think it's bad." "There's a $2.2 billion deficit, and the schools were going begging." "He didn't want to raise taxes 'cause he was going to run for president." "So instead of raising taxes, he cut back on schools, he cut back on highways, he cut back on a lot of things." In several pitched electoral battles over the last five years, Democratic lawmakers have lobbed these talking points at Scott Walker, so it's not clear what Donald Trump thought he would accomplish when he spoke these words in Wisconsin this week....

In Batman v. Superman, the Caped Crusader and the Man of Steel try to kill each other. In the sequel, they should team up and kill the people who made Batman v. Superman. Its filmmakers and the executives who hired them run the gamut from the unspeakably cynical to the astoundingly pretentious without ever bothering to take a pit stop at talent. They have violated the basic social contract by conspiring to drain the coffers of unsuspecting teenagers by telling said victims that they are going to see a movie rather than a promotional product reel for future promotional product reels. Vigilantism may be required. Here's what happens in...

House speaker Paul Ryan is not running for president. That became clear several months after the 2012 election, in which Ryan was Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate. At two private dinners, a prominent Republican introduced Ryan to a bipartisan group of influential policy intellectuals and potential campaign financiers, not all of them conservatives. Ryan didn't bite. It's now three years later, and he hasn't changed his mind. Ryan will preside over the Republican convention in July, but he says even if the presidential nomination is contested, he won't seek or accept it. "I actually think you should run for president .  .  . if...

In a famous episode of Seinfeld, George Costanza concludes that every instinct he’s had, every decision he's made, has been wrong and that he should henceforth do the opposite of what he had routinely been doing. He implements this new philosophy and promptly manages to entice an attractive woman to go out with him by introducing himself as unemployed and living with his parents. He then gets a job with the New York Yankees by telling off its imperious and temperamental owner, George Steinbrenner.

When we last checked in on Donald Trump’s campaign it was still a rolling embarrassment—a near-daily parade of pettiness, ignorance, and farce that was nonetheless en route to an ever-increasing delegate lead. Trump had held an unusual QVC-style postelection press conference in which he displayed phony "Trump products" in order to pretend that his failed businesses hadn't failed; he'd announced that he would serve as his own primary adviser on foreign policy "because I have a very good brain and I've said a lot of things"; and his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was forcefully denying eyewitness claims that, after a Trump presser, he'd...