For reasons that I don’t understand, my home-for-the summer college daughters have taken to watching episodes of National Geographic’s Doomsday Preppers. Sometimes, I watch with them. The show, which ...

PREPPERS are a notoriously secretive community obsessed with preparing for when the world ends. Now one Aussie member tells us what really goes on behind the scenes. “Most people would die, it’s ...

“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, ...