When people talk about getting ready for disaster, two groups always come up — preppers and survivalists. At first glance, they seem alike: both value self-reliance and readiness when life takes a ...

What exactly is a prepper? It’s anyone who anticipates a calamity resulting in some degree of social collapse, and makes plans—or prepares—to survive independently. Behind that definition lies a gamut ...

Homestead is real. And by “Homestead,” I mean the sprawling, largely self-contained and -sustaining compound in the Rocky Mountains that inspired and informed the best-selling post-apocalyptic Black ...

President Obama has pushed the “prepper movement” into high gear, sending millions to buy guns, survival gear and food to live through a “civil war,” according to a nationally known survivalist who ...