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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We sort through the heated rhetoric over "garbage," Liz Cheney and Trump's outreach to Arab Americans.
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NPR returns to 12 swing voters who disapproved of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump back in May to find out where they've landed with Kamala Harris as the nominee and the election just weeks away.
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Pollsters try to create an accurate model of the electorate. But that model can change abruptly, like when Vice President Harris became the Democratic nominee.
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President Biden drops out of the 2024 presidential race, and endorses Vice President Kamal Harris to replace him atop the Democratic ticket.
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President Biden spoke to NATO leaders Tuesdays night, marking the alliance's 75th anniversary. The speech came as questions continue to swirl about his reelection bid.
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Thursday night's presidential debate is not merely a replay of 2020. Here's a look at the dynamics, what's changed or not since 2020, and what to expect tonight.
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Many Americans say they don't want to vote for either President Biden or former President Trump this year. NPR wanted to learn more about these voters and what issues motivate them.
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Will former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict hurt him politically? We look at any evidence of how it will affect him and what the next steps are for him, politically and legally.
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President Biden and former President Donald Trump have agreed to events on June 27 with CNN and Sept. 10 with ABC News. They're opting out of a plan from the Commission on Presidential Debates.