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

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  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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