“Catastrophe is our bedtime story,” wrote Don DeLillo, a poetic embellishment that nowadays carries an element of factuality. Apocalypse scenarios are so commonplace in movies, television and books—to ...

In 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock, designed to assess the world’s “vulnerability to global catastrophe caused by man-made technologies.” Initially set at 11:53 ...

In the introduction of his new book, “Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of The World,” Dorian Lynskey cites a 2020 poll in which nearly 60 percent of young Americans firmly ...