Stories by Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal is a Puffin Foundation writing fellow at the Nation Institute based in Washington, DC. Read his blog at maxblumenthal.blogspot.com.
Obama has made a major effort to woo evangelicals, but at what cost to church-state separation?
Posted on Jul 2, 2008
Mike Huckabee tells America: end the abortion "holocaust," save the country from illegal immigration.
Posted on Jan 7, 2008
Anti-immigration zealot and GOP presidential candidate Tom Tancredo hired what he often refers to as "criminal aliens" to renovate his Colorado house.
Posted on Dec 1, 2007
With the Pentagon's blessings and assistance, apocalyptic evangelists are proselytizing US troops in Iraq.
Posted on Aug 8, 2007
Apparently, those are the best sources that the
Weekly Standard can find.
Posted on Aug 3, 2007
From Iraq to homosexuality and abortion, a visit with the next crop of Republican leaders reveals the utter hypocrisy and delusional thinking that sustains GOP politics.
Posted on Jul 20, 2007
The concept of "ex-gay" therapy, repudiated by the medical world, will be thoroughly examined when Bush's new surgeon general nominee comes up for confirmation.
Posted on Jun 12, 2007
When Monica Goodling's name erupted into the news last week in the attorney scandal, the mainstream press suddenly realized that Pat Robertson's Regent University exists -- and that it's got a big footprint in the Bush admin.
Posted on Apr 13, 2007
Sen. McCain has suffered a significant political defeat in his home base of Arizona by local Republicans activists who think he's a hypocrite who will do anything to get elected.
Posted on Feb 15, 2007
Armed with a list of names of gay Republican staffers in Washington, Christian Right leaders are calling for their exit.
Posted on Oct 13, 2006
There's a desperate fight for control at the top of the
Washington Times, and accusations from the staff are flying that the newsroom is run by racist good ole' boys.
Posted on Sep 21, 2006
How conservative zealot David Horowitz and a band of little-known operatives produced and promoted ABC's skewed 'The Path to 9/11.'
Posted on Sep 13, 2006
The Virginia senator claimed his 'macaca' comment was a mistake. But George Allen has a long and cozy history with white supremacists.
Posted on Sep 1, 2006
The Governor's race in Virginia is heating up, but the ads produced by the GOP candidate's attack-dog media consultant are backfiring and could sink the Republican.
Posted on Oct 31, 2005
The far-right physician and political neophyte is apparently clueless about the law; yet he has a hand in shaping the U.S. Supreme Court.
Posted on Sep 19, 2005
The Christian right activists gathered in Nashville for Justice Sunday II didn't get much of a defense of John Roberts, but learned a lot about 'enemy #1' -- Christopher Hitchens.
Posted on Aug 22, 2005
A conference featuring Rep. Tom DeLay, Phyllis Schlafly, Alan Keyes and other religious extremists demands that judges acknowledge "God as the sovereign source of law."
Posted on Apr 12, 2005
Judith Reisman believes sex researcher Alfred Kinsey is responsible for all the cultural decay and sexual permissiveness that she sees. And she's got the ear of the Christian right and the White House.
Posted on Dec 15, 2004
For the religious right, Bush was like any other stealth candidate. No matter his unqualifications, he delivered for them in his first term, and so they rewarded him with their votes in record numbers.
Posted on Nov 15, 2004
Republican operative Nathan Sproul's company is under investigation for allegedly destroying voter registration forms signed by Democrats. Now comes new evidence about Sproul's connections to the Bush-Cheney campaign.
Posted on Oct 15, 2004
While the rest of us are concerned about votes being stolen, the voting machine industry is squeezing millions from the public treasury.
Posted on Aug 26, 2004
Colin McNickle, the political wife-beater for billionnaire Richard Mellon-Scaife's right-wing attack machine, has set his sights on Teresa Heinz-Kerry – good thing she's willing to stand up to it.
Posted on Jul 29, 2004
Disney's counterpoint to 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is a right-wing anti-government commercial insidiously cloaked in a 'Morning in America' aesthetic.
Posted on Jul 9, 2004
