
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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President Trump meets El Salvador's president Monday at the White House to discuss the use of a Salvadoran supermax prison for migrants deported from the U.S.
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President Trump's tariff regime puts him at odds with Congressional Republicans seeking to cut taxes.
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A thin GOP House majority keeps Rep. Elise Stefanik from joining the Trump administration, Elon Musk's involvement in Wisconsin's special election, and fallout from the Signal app scandal.
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A budget stopgap hangover for congressional Democrats, consumer confidence slips following federal funding cuts, and the president's norm-busting speech at the Department of Justice.
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In his address to Congress, President Trump repeated his plans to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal, and suggested that an end to the war in Ukraine might be close.
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In one week, President Trump may have broken the Western Alliance and kick-started a nuclear arms race.
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President Trump is turning his attention to the Pentagon as he makes his way through the government in his bid to implement his agenda.
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We look at some of President Trump's executive orders as well as the confirmation process for his controversial nominee to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth.
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President-elect Donald Trump will begin his second term in office tomorrow. We'll look ahead to see what to expect from his administration based on what he did and didn't achieve in his first term.
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Congress will certify the 2024 presidential election results Monday, exactly four years after the attack on the Capitol. Plus, the split among Republicans over immigration reform.