Britons Will Heal After Brexit—But Americans Will Only Keep Fighting

By chance, I was in London when news came of the murder of British MP Jo Cox, and I was struck by the humbling effect of the national shockwave. Campaigners on both sides of the increasingly intense debate over the Brexit referendum on June 23 understood the time had come for a pause, a breath, a moment to step back from the battle lines. We'll never know for sure how many minds this horror changed, if any, but respect for Jo Cox and her family shifted the terms of the Brexit debate.