Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts (née Boggs) (born December 27, 1943), best known as Cokie Roberts, is an American

United States

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 Emmy Award

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-winning journalist

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 and bestselling

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 author

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. She is a contributing senior news analyst for National Public Radio as well as a regular roundtable analyst for the current This Week with Christiane Amanpour. Roberts also works as a political commentator for ABC News

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, serving as an on-air analyst for the network.

Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts

Steven V. Roberts

Steven V. Roberts is an American journalist, writer, political commentator.Roberts grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey and graduated from Bayonne High School. He attended Harvard where he served as editor of the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. After graduating with a B.A...

, writes a weekly column syndicated by United Media

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 in newspapers around the United States.