Max Blumenthal (born December 18, 1977) is an American author, journalist, and blogger.
He was awarded the 2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award for his book Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel (2013).
He was formerly a writer for AlterNet, The Daily Beast, Al Akhbar, and Media Matters for America, and was selected as a Fellow of the Nation Institute.
Blumenthal established The Grayzone in 2015 and continues to edit and write for the website.As of 2019, Blumenthal has published four books.
His first, Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009), made The New York Times bestsellers list that year.