Preppers have a reputation for being right-wing conservatives and libertarians. But The Atlantic's Olga Khazan, in an article published on January 13, examines a phenomenon that hasn't received a ...

The day after President Donald Trump was elected in 2016, Eric Shonkwiler looked at his hiking bag to figure out what supplies he had. “I began to look at that as a resource for escape, should that ...

Juli Gittinger keeps a bag packed with iodine pills and a machete. “It’s good for getting through brush,” she explained to me recently. Gittinger’s mind churns with images of a future in which she ...

LONGMONT, Colo. — Brook Morgan surveyed booths at the “Survival & Prepper Show” in Colorado that were stocked with boxes of ammunition, mounds of trauma medical kits, and every type of knife ...

Brekke Wagoner looks out the windows of her home in North Carolina and sees disaster coming. Not immediately, but someday, as hurricanes and other storms supercharged by climate change barrel up the ...

Survivalism -- the stockpiling of food and otherwise preparing for a possible end of civilization -- is often associated with isolated, rural and conservative Americans. But liberals are now joining ...