Speaking in Canada, Obama defends his economic vision against Trump, Ryan, and Bernie

Speaking to the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa on Wednesday evening, President Barack Obama took the opportunity to defend his administration’s broad approach to globalization and inequality, slamming isolationists and xenophobes on the right as well as the dogmatic laissez faire ideology that he believes gives them succor. But he also took to task critics on the left who see retreat behind national boundaries as the only way forward in a global economy — making a call for more globalization and bigger government combined as the key to a successful progressive internationalist approach to the world economy. The content of the speech was determined in part by simple timing — the Brexit vote...