but we’re trying to look for the opposite of the Red Cross,” says Merritt. “Think of it as a black market or a shadow group that cuts out the middle man.” The name doesn’t refer to race ...

Dear Readers: I was asked to rerun a column that appeared in 1976 explaining why the American Red Cross charged the GIs for coffee and doughnuts during World War II while the Salvation Army ...

The American Red Cross received reports that 134 people, including one who died, got hepatitis B after blood transfusions, but the organization did not investigate them because of internal ...

His newest effort, “Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust,” synthesizes what he and other historians have learned about the ICRC’s conduct during this ...