
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 Biden is grappling with how to convince young voters to support him. Climate and the pushback around him skipping COP28 is one example.
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We look at the passage of the stopgap spending bill as well as President Biden's statements on the necessity of a secure Palestinian state alongside Israel.
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The two met Wednesday in California to discuss economic concerns for their respective nations.
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The two met on Wednesday to discuss economic concerns about their respective nations.
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Former Vice President Mike Pence is leaving the race for the Republican presidential nomination while Rep. Dean Phillips, Minn., is joining the Democratic primary race.
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The Biden administration is asking for aid for Israel and Ukraine but it may have to wait for a new House speaker.
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President Biden paid a quick visit to Israel that become more fraught after an explosion at a Gaza hospital killed hundreds of people and sparked protest across the region.
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President Biden has taken a very pro-Israel stance since the Hamas attacks. But starting on Friday, the president has begun to talk more about the situation on the ground in Gaza.
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The U.S. reaction to the Israel conflict, and what's ahead as Republicans select a speaker of the House.
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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?