Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington

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Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of eleven books. She is also co-host of “Left, Right & Center,” public radio’s popular political roundtable program.

In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet.

In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union.

* "On Becoming Fearless....in Love, Work and Life" is Huffington's most recent and most personal book to date, offering a road map for achieving fearlessness in every aspect of life, a straight-to the point manifesto on how to be bold, how to say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done in order to find the freedom to love, lead and succeed.
* “Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America”, offers a scathing portrait of our contemporary political landscape with a bold, inspiring and practical approach to restoring America to the promise envisioned by our greatest leaders. It was published in 2004.
* “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption are Undermining America,” a New York Times bestseller, was published in 2003.
* “How to Overthrow the Government,” on the corruption of our political system and the need for reform, was published in 2000.
* “Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom,” a political satire, was published in 1998.
* “The Fourth Instinct,” on the longing for meaning in a secular world, was published in 1994.
* “Picasso: Creator and Destroyer,” a biography of Pablo Picasso was published in 1988. It was a major international bestseller, translated into 16 languages. The book was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins as Picasso and produced by Merchant-Ivory for Warner Bros.
* “The Gods of Greece,” celebrates the power of myths as guides to forgotten dimensions of life and ourselves. Atlantic Monthly Press republished it with paintings by Françoise Gilot
* “The Woman behind the Legend,” published in 1981, a biography of Maria Callas quickly became an international bestseller.
* “After Reason,” on political leadership and the intersection of politics and culture was published in 1978.
* “The Female Woman,” on the changing roles of women, was published in 1974 by Random House and translated into 11 languages.

Huffington has made guest appearances on numerous television shows, including “Charlie Rose,” “Oprah,” “Nightline,” “Real Time with Bill Maher,” “Inside Politics,” “Larry King Live,” “Hardball,” “Good Morning America,” the “Today” show, “Countdown” and “The O’Reilly Factor.”

She serves on several boards that promote community solutions to social problems, including A Place Called Home, which works with at-risk children in South Central Los Angeles. She also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Archer School for Girls.

Arianna Huffington lives in Los Angeles with her two teenage daughters.

Blog Entries by Arianna Huffington

Sunday Roundup

74 Comments | Posted May 10, 2008 | 06:23 PM (EST)


This week, John McCain gave a speech for the ages - the Dark Ages. He offered up the Right's boilerplate complaints about activist judges -- ignoring the fact that the majority of federal judges are GOP appointees, as are 7 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices. Or maybe he was...

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Truth Alert: McCain's Freudian Slip is Showing (and Very Telling)

287 Comments | Posted May 9, 2008 | 02:25 PM (EST)


At the same time that former West Wingers Brad Whitford and Richard Schiff were stepping forward to say that they too had heard John McCain say that he didn't vote for George Bush in 2000, McCain was grabbing a shovel and digging himself deeper with yet another...

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McCain and Me: Hero Worship Dies Hard (But When It Does...)

400 Comments | Posted May 6, 2008 | 01:45 PM (EST)


The way the McCain camp has reacted to my revelation about his not voting for Bush in 2000, immediately moving into kill-the-messenger mode, is further confirmation of what has happened to McCain -- now willing to say or do anything, or sling mud at anyone, to satisfy his...

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What John McCain Told Me, and What it Says About How Far He's Fallen

982 Comments | Posted May 5, 2008 | 04:43 PM (EST)


Most Recent News: Brad Whitford and Richard Schiff corroborate my post in Friday's New York Times piece by Elisabeth Bumiller.

Second Update: McCain and Me: Hero Worship Dies Hard (But When It Does...)

Update: Through a spokesperson with the colorful name Tucker Bounds, McCain has denied telling me...

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Sunday Roundup

175 Comments | Posted May 3, 2008 | 03:23 PM (EST)


This week, the Rev. Wright circus came back to town, and the media reacted like a giddy five year-old, giving his clownish act -- and Obama's acrobatic effort to avoid falling off the high wire -- wall-to-wall coverage. Getting far less airtime was the fact that April was the deadliest...

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Shameful Days: Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal?

518 Comments | Posted April 30, 2008 | 05:55 PM (EST)


The last ten days have been among the most shameful in the history of American journalism.

On April 20th, the New York Times published its expose of the Bush administration's use of Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched "military analysts" to appear on TV to help sell the invasion of Iraq,...

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Probing a Political Paradox: Why the Discredited Right Still Sets the Agenda and Dominates the Debate

812 Comments | Posted April 28, 2008 | 04:14 PM (EST)


It's a paradox: the political center has clearly shifted; what used to be considered "left wing" positions have now become part of the mainstream, and the views of the Right are now at odds with the majority of the American public -- and with reality.

Yet, despite this seismic...

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Sunday Roundup

222 Comments | Posted April 26, 2008 | 01:23 PM (EST)


This week featured the through-the-looking glass moment when Bill Clinton accused Barack Obama of having "played the race card on me," then denied saying it just a few hours later -- even though he'd said it on the radio. I know Toni Morrison called Clinton the first black president, but...

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Howard Kurtz's Take on Self-Loathing Liberal Media: Naïve, Disingenuous, or Willfully Ignorant?

130 Comments | Posted April 25, 2008 | 02:12 PM (EST)


In his column today, Howard Kurtz takes me on over my post on the self-loathing liberal media -- and completely misses the point:

Here's what Arianna isn't telling you. When Newsweek hired Rove, the magazine also hired Markos Moulitsas. Kristol's once-a-week column is balanced on the Times op-ed...
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The Self-Loathing Liberal Media

771 Comments | Posted April 24, 2008 | 11:34 AM (EST)


I've been thinking some more about CNN hiring Tony Snow as a commentator.

Coming in the wake of Newsweek's hiring of Karl Rove, and the New York Times' hiring of Bill Kristol, the mainstream media's embrace of these unabashed propagandists has revealed a self-loathing streak a mile...

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The Toxic Thinking of the Right Infects the Body Politic

179 Comments | Posted April 22, 2008 | 04:01 PM (EST)


Yesterday, I wrote about how the mainstream media have completely internalized the framing and messages of the lunatic fringe now in control of the Republican Party, and offered a series of the latest examples.

Like clockwork, as soon as I published that post, yet more evidence arrived in my...

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The Latest Proof that the Karl Rove Playbook Has Become the MSM's Bible

282 Comments | Posted April 21, 2008 | 07:02 PM (EST)


One of the main themes of my new book, Right Is Wrong, is the role the media have played in allowing the lunatic fringe now in control of the Republican Party -- the people who believe in torture but don't believe in evolution -- to hijack our democracy. I document...

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Sunday Roundup

294 Comments | Posted April 19, 2008 | 07:23 PM (EST)


In my new book, Right Is Wrong, I show how the lunatic fringe of the right has hijacked the media (along with our democracy) -- not via FoxNews and the blowhards of talk radio, but through the complicity of high-profile enablers in the mainstream media. This week's disgraceful debate...

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A Pollster Takes Me to the Cyber-Woodshed on Colombia and the Drug War: I Respond

101 Comments | Posted April 16, 2008 | 12:49 PM (EST)


Writing in The Hill, pollster Mark Mellman took me to the cyber-woodshed yesterday, claiming that my post referencing his work on a 1999 poll commissioned by defense contractor Lockheed Martin provided an "inaccurate rendition of it" and reveals my "schizophrenic" relationship with polls.

I beg to differ.

To...

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John McCain Should Go on Vacation, Hillary Clinton is Doing His Job for Him

1982 Comments | Posted April 14, 2008 | 01:41 PM (EST)


Clinton supporters say the darndest things.

Here's Sen. Evan Bayh, commenting on the political firestorm surrounding Barack Obama's remarks -- broken here on HuffPost's OffTheBus -- about economically-depressed small town voters: "The far right wing has a very good track record of using things like this relentlessly...

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Sunday Roundup

83 Comments | Posted April 12, 2008 | 01:23 PM (EST)


This week, being sent to the Principal's office took on a whole new meaning when we learned that the National Security Council's Principals Committee - which included Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, George Tenet, and John Ashcroft - discussed and approved very specific details of the...

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The Clinton-Colombia Connection: It Goes Back a Long Way

434 Comments | Posted April 9, 2008 | 07:07 PM (EST)


A week ago, if you'd asked most people to say the first thing that popped into their heads when they heard the word "Colombia," you might have gotten: "Bogotá," "coffee," "cocaine," or maybe even "kidnappings."

Today that list would probably be led by "Clinton."

First came chief strategist Mark Penn's...

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Petraeus' Call for a Pause is Really Just "Stay the Course 2.0"

337 Comments | Posted April 7, 2008 | 01:10 PM (EST)


Have you heard the news? "The Surge" is about to end. The next phase of our 100 Year War is "The Pause." Surge, Pause... Surge, Pause... We can't pull out! It's all starting to sound a bit sexual, isn't it? But the American people are the ones getting screwed.

...
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Sunday Roundup

125 Comments | Posted April 5, 2008 | 09:35 PM (EST)


This week saw the public unveiling of Bill Clinton 3.0 -- twice the finger-pointing rage with half the unload time. But the killer app of this version is the ability to instantly reboot and advise everyone else to "chill out." Politician, heal thyself! John McCain meanwhile touted his...

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Want a Taste of the McCain Presidency? You've Already Had One

Posted April 2, 2008 | 11:41 PM (EST)


Our country is facing two serious crises right now, one foreign -- the disastrous war in Iraq -- and one domestic -- a mismanaged economy on the brink of collapse.

This is obviously why the right track/wrong track polling numbers are at such stunning extremes: 22 percent "satisfied" to...

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