More than 20 million Americans now call themselves preppers, double the number from 2017. These people prepare for ...

Troy McKinley was launching the first day of his Minnesota Prepper Expo on June 20 when someone handed him a phone with breaking news. An FBI agent had described alleged political assassin Vance ...

Many preppers have an origin story, when they realized the world was a more fragile and unpredictable place than they had thought, and that any help they might have assumed was on its way wasn’t.

“Prepping,” or getting ready to live without societal support, is apparently a largely American activity, and a recent one. Companies that cater to people who want to be self-reliant for food, water, ...

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 ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Curt La Haise has put up with plenty of razzing from friends over the years who have called him paranoid for stockpiling an eight-month supply of food in his basement and having enough ...

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