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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 twelve 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.

* "Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe" was published in 2008. Both a withering indictment and a hopeful call to arms, "Right Is Wrong" makes the case that America has been hijacked from within by the “lunatic fringe” of the Right that has taken over the Republican Party –- enabled by a compliant media that act as if there is no such thing as truth and are more interested in cozying up to those in power than in holding them accountable.
* "On Becoming Fearless....in Love, Work and Life" is Huffington's 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

549 Comments | Posted February 6, 2010 | 11:34 PM (EST)


The difference between Sarah Palin's reaction to Rahm Emanuel's ill-advised use of the word "retarded" (directed at liberals), and Rush Limbaugh's use of the word (directed at advocates for the mentally handicapped) speaks volumes. When it was reported that Emanuel used the word in a private meeting -- one time...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough Keep Me Up All Night... Lessons (Yawn) Learned

22 Comments | Posted February 4, 2010 | 05:21 PM (EST)


Today is the last official day of the HuffPost/Glamour Sleep Challenge 2010... and I ended things by not getting a wink of sleep last night.

No, this was not an act of defiance or the sleep equivalent of a last day of school blowout. It was a twist of fate...

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Only Empathy Can Save Us: Why Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilization Is This Month's HuffPost Book Club Pick

445 Comments | Posted February 3, 2010 | 12:30 PM (EST)


For this month's HuffPost Book Club, I have chosen a big book -- both figuratively and literally. Jeremy Rifkin's The Empathic Civilization clocks in at close to 700 pages and sets out to present nothing less than -- as Rifkin puts it -- "a new rendering of human history and...

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Glenn Beck Update: The Backpedaling Begins

1525 Comments | Posted February 2, 2010 | 02:24 PM (EST)


Click here to read my previous post: "Glenn Beck Goes After Me, But Forgets His Show Is on Video and Lies About Things He 'Never, Never' Said"

So the Glenn Beck backpedal begins. Slowly. But surely.

After initially insisting that he'd never used the word "slaughtered"...

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Davos Diary 2010: Snapshots from My Short But Sweet Visit

6 Comments | Posted February 1, 2010 | 10:43 PM (EST)


Because of a jam-packed week, my time at this year's World Economic Forum was limited. But as is always the case with Davos, there were more than a few snapshot-worthy moments.

Things got off to an interesting start before I even arrived. I happened to be on the...

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Glenn Beck Goes After Me, But Forgets His Show Is on Video and Lies About Things He "Never, Never" Said

1474 Comments | Posted February 1, 2010 | 07:08 PM (EST)


Following up on my back and forth with Roger Ailes yesterday on ABC's This Week, Glenn Beck went on his radio show today and attacked what I'd said about him -- and, in the process, ended up spewing a lot more misinformation.

Beck's key point of contention was...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: Getting Horizontal on the Way to Gender Parity

43 Comments | Posted February 1, 2010 | 02:48 PM (EST)


2010-01-07-091202_Huffington021_1.jpgSo I made it through my Travel Week from Hell not too much worse for wear. I wasn't able to meet my 8-hour sleep goal most nights but by sleeping on planes and grabbing power naps here and there, I didn't miss by...

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Sunday Roundup

208 Comments | Posted January 30, 2010 | 11:45 PM (EST)


This week, Justice Alito offered up the refined, Supreme Court version of Joe Wilson's "You Lie!"; James O'Keefe went from ACORN-busting "pimp" to FBI-busted perp; and Kirstie Alley, under the influence of her made-for-TV diet, Tweeted her desire to "bash" Joy Behar "in the...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: Trying to Get Enough Sleep While Logging More Air Miles Than Clooney in Up in the Air

31 Comments | Posted January 28, 2010 | 10:48 AM (EST)


Over the three-and-a-half weeks of Sleep Challenge 2010, I've faced numerous challenges in meeting my sleep goal. But this week has presented me with perhaps the toughest obstacle of all: the travel week from hell.

Starting this past Monday and continuing until late Sunday, I'm spending more time in planes...

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Obama's State of the Focus Group Speech

1530 Comments | Posted January 28, 2010 | 12:22 AM (EST)


The president, we were told, spent a good deal of time in the days leading up to his State of the Union address, going over it with a fine-toothed comb, making changes and additions in longhand.

But judging from the speech, he also spent a lot of time going...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: Sleep As the Key to Happiness and Peak Performance

23 Comments | Posted January 26, 2010 | 08:00 AM (EST)


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One of the great side benefits of writing regularly about a subject is that you suddenly become a magnet for other people interested in that topic. I've found that to be especially true when it comes to writing about sleep. I...

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State of the Union: Is Obama Ready to Make the Middle Class His Priority?

804 Comments | Posted January 25, 2010 | 05:18 PM (EST)


By the end of the president's State of the Union speech on Wednesday, we'll know just how serious he is about his post-Massachusetts pivot to making jobs and the middle class his top priority -- or whether the last week of two-fisted rhetoric has been an escalation in tone but...

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Sunday Roundup

397 Comments | Posted January 24, 2010 | 12:04 PM (EST)


John F. Kennedy came into office wanting to be a transformational president, but he started with three false assumptions: He was convinced that the Third World was about to go Communist, that the Soviets would soon have a nuclear advantage, and that civil rights legislation could wait. When he realized...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: I Now Have Dozens of Baby Sitters ... All Telling Me to Go to Bed

34 Comments | Posted January 21, 2010 | 04:45 PM (EST)


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Ever since I've started writing about the Sleep Challenge, I keep running into people who have taken a strong interest in my sleeping habits -- and seem committed to helping me stick to my sleep goal.

Sunday night,...

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How Massachusetts Can Turn Out to Be a Blessing for Democrats

861 Comments | Posted January 21, 2010 | 07:00 AM (EST)


The Wall Street Journal asked me to offer my take on the results in the Massachusetts Senate race. A version of this post appears in today's WSJ.

If the White House learns the right lessons from this stunning loss, it will turn out to be a...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: Perchance to Dream

31 Comments | Posted January 19, 2010 | 09:01 AM (EST)


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We're two weeks in to the sleep challenge, with two more weeks to go, and I really feel like I've hit my snoozing stride. I've met my sleep goal of 8 hours a night for five of the last seven nights....

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"Hope" Has Been a Bust, It's Time for Hope 2.0

1628 Comments | Posted January 18, 2010 | 04:43 PM (EST)


On the eve of the first anniversary of President Obama's inauguration, it's become painfully obvious that elected officials are not going to save us. The 2008 election was all about "Hope." But Hope is simply not cutting it.

What we need is Hope 2.0: the realization that our system is...

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Sunday Roundup

55 Comments | Posted January 16, 2010 | 11:58 PM (EST)


Crises bring out both the best and the worst in human behavior. For evidence of the latter, look no further than Pat Robertson blaming the Haiti earthquake on a long ago pact the island apparently made with Beelzebub, or Rush Limbaugh claiming Obama's relief efforts were designed to curry favor...

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HuffPost Turns Over the Top of Every Section to All the Ways We Can Help in Haiti

67 Comments | Posted January 15, 2010 | 02:37 PM (EST)


As the crisis in Haiti escalates, we have decided to turn over the top of our home page and each of our 17 sections to the relief efforts, and the many different ways we can all help. This moment of human tragedy and intense suffering is also a great opportunity...

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Sleep Challenge 2010: I Fall Off the Wagon (with a Push from Zorba the Greek)

102 Comments | Posted January 14, 2010 | 08:41 AM (EST)


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Okay, I have a confession to make. It's now Day 11 of the sleep challenge -- not even halfway through -- and I've fallen off the sleep wagon. But I have a very good excuse. Of course, everyone who falls off...

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