Max Blumenthal

Max Blumenthal is a former writer for The Daily Beast, writing fellow at The Nation Institute and author of Republican Gomorrah (Basic/Nation Books). Contact him at maxblumenthal3000@yahoo.com.

The War on Christmas Peters Out

This year, the Christian right’s annual campaign against godless liberal retailers was over before it started—with a boycott against the Gap’s “censorship of the word ‘Christmas’” abruptly suspended. Max Blumenthal on their new target.

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Palin's Wing-Nut Rival

Obsessed with the “Muslim threat,” Rick Santorum is telling his friends he’s readying for a White House run in 2012.

Max Blumenthal

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Un-Pelosi: The Senator Who’ll Kill the Stupak Amendment

Freshman New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tells the Daily Beast why the notorious anti-abortion Stupak amendment will be defeated—and how she’s helping bring it down.

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Palin's Noxious Ghostwriter

How the failed GOP veep nominee turned to a gay-bashing ghostwriter and a blogger tied to white supremacist groups to craft her image and autobiography.

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Did Women Beat the Right's Point Man?

Limbaugh and the Tea Party crowd drove out the moderate woman, but Conservative Doug Hoffman still lost his race. Max Blumenthal says far right's virulent attacks are what really did him in.

Max Blumenthal

Max Blumenthal

The War on Christmas Peters Out

Palin's Wing-Nut Rival

Un-Pelosi: The Senator Who’ll Kill the Stupak Amendment

Palin's Noxious Ghostwriter

Did Women Beat the Right's Point Man?

Pat Robertson's Manchurian Candidate

Joe Wilson's Strange Friends

18 Outrageous Conservative Quotes

Inside Sarah's Church

Behind the Obama-Hitler Slur