Magic Mushrooms vs. Prozac | Is Military Service Patriotic? A Third Say No

Exclusive OZY and SurveyMonkey poll: Over a third of Americans don’t see military service as a form of patriotism.

Americans pausing today to watch the sky light up in patriotic displays are divided on whether and how to express love of country, a schism that bleeds into its basic symbols and strongest institutions. Only 61 percent of the country considers serving in the military to be patriotic.

That’s the most striking number OZY and SurveyMonkey found in measuring how Americans feel about their country in an exclusive nationwide poll. We conducted the research to mark our arrival in the United States on our journey Around the World. The unease across our nation is far broader and deeper than attitudes toward President Trump. The troops, the flag, the anthem — the very nature of being American — are all under question in this uncertain era.

Rosalind Watts is tackling depression with strong psychedelic drugs.

When her best friend announced she planned to fly to the Amazon to cure her lifelong anxiety with ayahuasca, a vile-tasting brew renowned for inducing titanic hallucinations, Rosalind Watts begged her not to go. As a clinical psychologist, she knew that conventional psychiatric medications were by no means a panacea. But the idea of her friend disappearing into the jungle to swallow a reality-warping concoction under the supervision of indigenous shamans didn’t just terrify her: It threatened to demolish the bedrock of assumptions that underpinned her career.

A humble lawyer to friends, a “cancer” to foes, Don McGahn is deciding the fate of the Supreme Court.

Blue and green lights flicker across the stage, cutting through the fog machine smoke, as Scott’s New Band takes the stage in Ocean City, Maryland. Amid neon plastic cocktail glasses and Bud Light cans, the band begins playing Journey’s bar sing-along classic, “Don’t Stop Believin’” and the crowd goes wild. And if you look closely, off to the right in a yellow T-shirt and black hat, shredding on lead guitar, you’ll spot current White House counsel and President Donald Trump’s official lawyer, Mr. Donald McGahn.