For the last thirty years, the United States has mostly treated homeland security as a series of separate events: a hurricane, a bombing, a pandemic, or a cyber outage.

Civil investigative demands (CIDs) are powerful investigative tools that federal agencies use to gather information in support of a broad range of charges. Identifying the federal agencies that issued ...

Time was when a small American who got vaccinated and looked both ways before crossing streets had a reasonable chance of outliving his boyhood. But a new complication to survival has been added. One ...

As the effects of climate change intensify in urban areas, it is essential to strengthen the organizational capacity of civil defense units to implement disaster risk management, including prevention ...

In 1950, President Truman appointed Millard Caldwell, Jr., as the first head of the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA). The former Governor of Florida, Caldwell was a vocal segregationist who ...

In Miller’s Cafeteria, in downtown Denver, four young women met for the afternoon coffee break—and almost immediately began talking about what weighed heaviest on their minds. Said Louise Epperson, a ...

Christian Ruhl is the global catastrophic risks research lead at Founders Pledge and manages the Global Catastrophic Risks Fund. Hannah Yang is the research communicator at Founders Pledge and a ...