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Mara Liasson
Mara Liasson is a national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazine programs Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC — focusing on the White House and Congress — and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway.
Each election year, Liasson provides key coverage of the candidates and issues in both presidential and congressional races. During her tenure she has covered seven presidential elections — in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. Prior to her current assignment, Liasson was NPR's White House correspondent for all eight years of the Clinton administration. She has won the White House Correspondents' Association's Merriman Smith Award for daily news coverage in 1994, 1995, and again in 1997. From 1989-1992 Liasson was NPR's congressional correspondent.
Liasson joined NPR in 1985 as a general assignment reporter and newscaster. From September 1988 to June 1989 she took a leave of absence from NPR to attend Columbia University in New York as a recipient of a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism.
Prior to joining NPR, Liasson was a freelance radio and television reporter in San Francisco. She was also managing editor and anchor of California Edition, a California Public Radio nightly news program, and a print journalist for The Vineyard Gazette in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
Liasson is a graduate of Brown University where she earned a bachelor's degree in American history.
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A small group of Republicans in the House of Representatives took the nation to the edge of a government shutdown. And then, that same group ousted the speaker of the House. How did we get here?
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Title 42, which allows the US to reject asylum-seekers without a hearing, is set to end May 11. President Biden is sending troops to the border in anticipation of an increase in asylum-seekers there.
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We step back to look at the big picture of President Biden's upcoming State of the Union address.
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As 2022 begins to wind down, NPR takes a look at how the year has gone for President Biden.
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Going into Tuesday night, based on trends, Democrats could expect to lose 20-30 seats in the House. Anything above 40 would be a total blowout. We examine the big picture.
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As voting draws to a close, we take stock of the midterm elections and what lies ahead.
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President Biden gave a speech about abortion rights Tuesday, billed as a political event ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.
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Former President Donald Trump faces a number of legal challenges — including the DOJ's probe into his handling of sensitive government material and his role in the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol.
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How did the attack on the U.S. Capitol come together? What did President Trump know and why did he take so long to respond? And who will be held accountable?
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President Biden's agenda is stuck and his standing with the public is at historic lows. Former White House chiefs of staff offer insights on what's going wrong and what could turn things around.