Huffington, Arianna

Arianna Huffington is an author, philanthropist, political pundit, television personality, and owner of the independently liberal, online news magazine, The Huffington Post. Though a naturalized U.S. citizen, Arianna Huffington's interest in United States politics began with her marriage to Texas oil millionaire and former conservative member of the House of Representatives, Michael Huffington. Though the two divorced in 1997, Arianna Huffington remained politically passionate, and eventually returned to her liberal roots as the author of more than a dozen politically focused books, as a frequent commentator on national news shows, as the 2003 independent candidate for governor of California in the campaign to recall Governor Gray Davis, and, even today, as the host of two nationally syndicated public radio shows, Left, Right & ...