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, 2020 | Daniel Weiss | Featured discussion of Weiss's book In That Time: Michael O'Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam. |
| January 12, 2020 | Donald Ritchie | Featured discussion of the history of impeachment trials in the United States. |
| January 19, 2020 | Joseph McQuaid | Featured discussion of the history of the New Hampshire primaries. |
| January 26, 2020 | David Yepsen | Featured discussion of the history of the "first-in-the-nation" Iowa caucuses. |
| February 2, 2020 | Kathryn Sullivan | Featured discussion of Sullivan's experiences as a member of the NASA's first class of female astronauts. |
| February 9, 2020 | Micheal Lual Mayen | Featured discussion of Mayen's experiences as a South Sudanese refugee and as a video game developer. |
| February 16, 2020 | Craig Fehrman | Featured discussion of Fehrman's book Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote. |
| February 23, 2020 | Matthew Green | Featured 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, 2020 | Carl Cannon | Featured discussion of the history of the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses. |
| March 8, 2020 | Peggy Wallace Kennedy | Featured discussion of Kennedy's book The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation. |
| March 15, 2020 | Steve Inskeep | Featured 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, 2020 | Christian McMillen | Featured discussion of McMillen's book Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction. |
| March 29, 2020 | Amity Shlaes | Featured discussion of governmental responses to economic crises. |
| April 5, 2020 | N/A | Featured a profile of Dr. Anthony Fauci. |
| April 19, 2020 | James Wallner | Featured discussion of U.S. Senate majority leaders. |
| June 21, 2020 | Peniel Joseph | Featured discussion of Joseph's book The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.. |
| June 28, 2020 | Elena Conis | Featured discussion of the development of the Polio vaccine. |
| July 5, 2020 | Siddhartha Mukherjee | Featured discussion of the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| July 12, 2020 | Erin Geiger Smith | Featured discussion of Smith's book Thank You for Voting. |
| July 19, 2020 | John Burtka | Featured discussion of The American Conservative's analysis of the current status of conservatism. |
| August 2, 2020 | Chris Wallace | Featured discussion of Wallace's book Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World. |
| August 9, 2020 | Reihan Salam | Featured 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, 2020 | Elaine Weiss | Featured discussion of Weiss's book The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote. |
| August 23, 2020 | Katherine Gehl | Featured discussion of Gehl's book The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy. |
| August 30, 2020 | Harold Holzer | Part 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, 2020 | Richard Horton | Featured discussion of Horton's role as editor-in-chief of The Lancet. |
| September 20, 2020 | Harold Holzer | Part two of the discussion with Holzer. |
| September 27, 2020 | Eric Jay Dolin | Featured discussion of Dolin's book A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes. |
| October 4, 2020 | Ilya Shapiro | Featured discussion of Shaprio's book Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court. |
| October 11, 2020 | Isabel Wilkerson | Featured discussion of Wilkerson's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. |
| October 18, 2020 | Nic Novicki | Featured discussion of Novicki's work as the founder and director of the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. |
| October 25, 2020 | Kathleen Belew and Jillian Melchior | Featured discussion of the Proud Boys and Antifa. |
| November 1, 2020 | Matthew Weil and Laura Hautala | Featured discussion of mail-in ballots, election security, and voting machines. |
| November 8, 2020 | David Savage | Featured discussion of the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case. |
| November 15, 2020 | Sarah Brayne | Featured discussion of law enforcement use of big data and new surveillance technologies. |
| November 22, 2020 | James Taing | Featured 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, 2020 | Susan Schulten and Eric Rauchway | Featured discussion of contentious presidential transitions in U.S. history. |
| December 13, 2020 | Kat Cammack and Sara Jacobs | |
| December 20, 2020 | Jake Wood | Featured discussion of Wood's role as one of the founders of Team Rubicon. |
| December 27, 2020 |
References[edit]
- ^ "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.