List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2020

Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is typically hosted by C-SPAN President and co-CEO Susan Swain. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."[1]

Original air date
(Links to video)		Interviewee(s)Comments
January 5, 2020Daniel WeissFeatured discussion of Weiss's book In That Time: Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam.
January 12, 2020Donald RitchieFeatured discussion of the history of impeachment trials in the United States.
January 19, 2020Joseph McQuaidFeatured discussion of the history of the New Hampshire primaries.
January 26, 2020David YepsenFeatured discussion of the history of the "first-in-the-nation" Iowa caucuses.
February 2, 2020Kathryn SullivanFeatured discussion of Sullivan's experiences as a member of the NASA's first class of female astronauts.
February 9, 2020Micheal Lual MayenFeatured discussion of Mayen's experiences as a South Sudanese refugee and as a video game developer.
February 16, 2020Craig FehrmanFeatured discussion of Fehrman's book Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote.
February 23, 2020Matthew GreenFeatured discussion of Green's book The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership, and focused on his analyses of various Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives.
March 1, 2020Carl CannonFeatured discussion of the history of the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses.
March 8, 2020Peggy Wallace KennedyFeatured discussion of Kennedy's book The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation.
March 15, 2020Steve InskeepFeatured discussion of Inskeep's book Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War.
March 22, 2020Christian McMillenFeatured discussion of McMillen's book Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction.
March 29, 2020Amity ShlaesFeatured discussion of governmental responses to economic crises.
April 5, 2020N/AFeatured a profile of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
April 19, 2020James WallnerFeatured discussion of U.S. Senate majority leaders.
June 21, 2020Peniel JosephFeatured discussion of Joseph's book The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr..
June 28, 2020Elena ConisFeatured discussion of the development of the Polio vaccine.
July 5, 2020Siddhartha MukherjeeFeatured discussion of the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 12, 2020Erin Geiger SmithFeatured discussion of Smith's book Thank You for Voting.
July 19, 2020John BurtkaFeatured discussion of The American Conservative's analysis of the current status of conservatism.
August 2, 2020Chris WallaceFeatured discussion of Wallace's book Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World.
August 9, 2020Reihan SalamFeatured discussion of Salam's role as president of the Manhattan Institute, and of potential long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on large cities.
August 16, 2020Elaine WeissFeatured discussion of Weiss's book The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.
August 23, 2020Katherine GehlFeatured discussion of Gehl's book The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy.
August 30, 2020Harold HolzerPart one of a discussion of Holzer's book The Endless Battle Between the White House and the Media: From the Founding Fathers to Fake News.
September 13, 2020Richard HortonFeatured discussion of Horton's role as editor-in-chief of The Lancet.
September 20, 2020Harold HolzerPart two of the discussion with Holzer.
September 27, 2020Eric Jay DolinFeatured discussion of Dolin's book A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes.
October 4, 2020Ilya ShapiroFeatured discussion of Shaprio's book Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court.
October 11, 2020Isabel WilkersonFeatured discussion of Wilkerson's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
October 18, 2020Nic NovickiFeatured discussion of Novicki's work as the founder and director of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge.
October 25, 2020Kathleen Belew and Jillian MelchiorFeatured discussion of the Proud Boys and Antifa.
November 1, 2020Matthew Weil and Laura HautalaFeatured discussion of mail-in ballots, election security, and voting machines.
November 8, 2020David SavageFeatured discussion of the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case.
November 15, 2020Sarah BrayneFeatured discussion of law enforcement use of big data and new surveillance technologies.
November 22, 2020James TaingFeatured discussion of Taing's documentary Ghost Mountain, about the 1979 massacre of Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot's Killing Fields by Thai soldiers along the Thailand-Cambodia border.
December 6, 2020Susan Schulten and Eric RauchwayFeatured discussion of contentious presidential transitions in U.S. history.
December 13, 2020Kat Cammack and Sara Jacobs
December 20, 2020Jake WoodFeatured discussion of Wood's role as one of the founders of Team Rubicon.
December 27, 2020

References
  1. "C-SPAN's "Q&A"". YouTube. Watch Q&A every Sunday night on C-SPAN at 8pm ET. Each week we introduce you to interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work.
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