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.
At one time, the State of the Union was a chance for the president to talk to Congress about what the two branches of government could do together for the country. But those days are over.
Analysis of another busy week in politics — from former President Donald Trump's big win in South Carolina to the national political implications of the Alabama Supreme Court's IVF ruling.
President Biden gave a fiery defense of his mental acuity at the White House on Thursday after the Justice Department delivered a report that described him as an "elderly man with a poor memory."