# List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2016

Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. 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."
| Original air date (link to video) | Interviewee(s) | Comments |
| January 3, 2016 | Michael Ramirez | Featured discussion of Ramirez's work as an editorial cartoonist. |
| January 10, 2016 | Marty Baron | Featured discussion of Baron's work as editor of The Boston Globe and The Washington Post. |
| January 17, 2016 | Aviva Kempner | Featured discussion of Kempner's documentary Rosenwald about the life of Julius Rosenwald. |
| January 24, 2016 | Carlos Lozada | Featured discussion of books written by candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. |
| January 31, 2016 | Scott Christianson | Featured discussion of Christianson's book 100 Documents that Changed the World: From the Magna Carta to Wikileaks. |
| February 7, 2016 | Jesse Holland | Featured discussion of Holland's book The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House. |
| February 14, 2016 | Robert Gates | Featured discussion of Gates's book A Passion for Leadership. |
| February 21, 2016 | Bill Press | Featured discussion of Press's book Buyer's Remorse: How Obama Let Progressives Down. |
| February 28, 2016 | Thomas Schatz | Featured discussion of Schatz's experiences as president of Citizens Against Government Waste. |
| March 6, 2016 | Robert Kaplan | Featured discussion of Kaplan's book In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond. |
| March 13, 2016 | Peter Baker and Susan Glasser | |
| March 20, 2016 | Gabe Roth | Executive director of Fix the Court, a judicial advocacy group |
| March 27, 2016 | Robert J. Gordon | Featured discussion of Gordon's book The Rise and Fall of American Growth. |
| April 3, 2016 | U.S. Senate Youth Program | |
| April 10, 2016 | Mary Sarah Bilder | Featured discussion of Bilder's book Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention. |
| April 17, 2016 | Sally Denton | Featured discussion of Denton's book The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, about Bechtel. |
| April 24, 2016 | Ron Chernow | Featured discussion of the musical Hamilton, which was based on Chernow's 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton. |
| May 1, 2016 | Amy Goodman | |
| May 8, 2016 | Zalmay Khalilzad | Featured discussion of Khalilzad's memoir, The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World. |
| May 15, 2016 | Adam Hochschild | Featured discussion of Hochschild's book Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. |
| May 22, 2016 | Michael Kinsley | Featured discussion of Kinsley's book Old Age: A Beginners Guide. |
| May 29, 2016 | Betty Koed | Featured discussion of Koed's work as Historian of the United States Senate. |
| June 5, 2016 | Tammy Baldwin | Featured discussion of Baldwin's experiences as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. |
| June 12, 2016 | Simon Sebag Montefiore | Featured discussion of Montefiore's book The Romanovs: 1613-1918. |
| June 19, 2006 | Jo Ann Jenkins | Featured discussion of Jenkins's book Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age and her work as CEO of the AARP. |
| June 26, 2016 | Arthur Herman | Featured discussion of Herman's book Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior. |
| July 3, 2016 (Part 1) July 3, 2016 (Part 2) | Mark Green | Featured discussion of Green's book Bright, Infinite Future: A Generational Memoir on the Progressive Rise. |
| July 10, 2016 | Gerard Robinson | Featured discussion of Robinson's roles as Florida Education Commissioner and Virginia Secretary of Education. |
| July 17, 2016 | Corey Pegues | Featured discussion of Pegues's book Once a Cop: The Street, the Law, Two Worlds, One Man about his career with the New York City Police Department. |
| July 24, 2016 | Jean Edward Smith | Featured discussion of Smith's book Bush, about former President George W. Bush. |
| July 31, 2016 | Joshua Kendall | Featured discussion of Kendall's book First Dads. |
| August 7, 2016 | James Robertson | Featured discussion of After the Civil War: The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America. |
| August 14, 2016 | Clifton Raphael | Featured discussion of Raphael's experiences teaching film and television production at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma. |
| August 21, 2016 | Nancy Isenberg | Featured discussion of Isenberg's book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. |
| August 28, 2016 | Laurence Leamer | Featured discussion of Leamer's books, including his 2016 book The Lynching. |
| September 4, 2016 | Tom Fitton | Featured discussion of Fitton's book Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies. |
| September 11, 2016 | David Cay Johnston | Featured discussion of Johnston's book The Making of Donald Trump. |
| September 18, 2016 | James Traub | Featured discussion of Traub's book John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit. |
| September 25, 2016 | Robert J. Samuelson | Featured discussion of Samuelson's writings on economics as a columnist for the Washington Post. |
| October 2, 2016 | John Podhoretz | Featured discussion of Podhoretz's writings as a movie reviewer for The Weekly Standard. |
| October 9, 2016 | N/A | Q&A was not aired due to the second presidential debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. |
| October 16, 2016 | Maureen Dowd | |
| October 23, 2016 | J. D. Vance | Featured discussion of Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy. |
| October 30, 2016 | Larry Tye | Featured discussion of Bobby Kennedy: Making of a Liberal Icon. |
| November 6, 2016 | Candice Millard | Featured discussion of Millard's book Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill. |
| November 13, 2016 | Stephen Puleo | Featured discussion of Puleo's book American Treasures. |
| November 20, 2016 | Okey Ndibe | Featured discussion of Ndibe's book Never Look an American in the Eye: Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American. |
| November 27, 2016 | Edward Larson | Featured discussion of Larson's book George Washington, Nationalist. |
| December 4, 2016 | Ronald White | Featured discussion of White's book American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant. |
| December 11, 2016 | Brian Gruber | Featured discussion of Gruber's book War: The Afterparty - A Global Walkabout Through a Half-Century of U.S. Military Interventions. |
| December 18, 2016 | Robert Strauss | Featured discussion of Strauss's book Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents. |
| December 25, 2016 | Mark Danner | Featured discussion of Danner's book Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War. |