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Mara Liasson (; born June 13, 1955) is an American journalist and political pundit. She is the national political correspondent for
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and a contributor at
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Early life

Liasson was born in New York City to a Jewish family. She grew up in
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and graduated from
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in 1973. Additionally, when she was studying at Scarsdale High School, she was one of a few students to form the Scarsdale Alternative School, an experimental democratic community that still exists today. She is a graduate of
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(class of 1977) with a bachelor's degree in
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Career

Liasson was a freelance radio and television reporter in San Francisco and worked at Berkeley's
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before joining NPR in 1985. She was awarded a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business JournalismProfile
at Jewish Ann Arbor
to study at
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for a year; she took leave to do that in 1988–89, then became NPR's congressional correspondent. She was NPR's White House correspondent from 1992 to 2001, receiving the
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's Merriman Smith Award for daily news coverage for 1994, 1995 and 1997. She is now NPR's national political correspondent. She joined Fox News in 1997. She is a regular contributor to ''
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'' and a panelist on ''
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''. She has also worked as a panelist for the
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weekend news program '' Washington Week'', which is aired on many
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Personal life

She was married to the late Jonathan Cuneo, a partner in the law firm of Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca in Washington, D.C. They have three children.


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