# List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2012

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 (Links to video) | Interviewee(s) | Comments |
| January 1, 2012 | William Beutler | Featured discussion of Wikipedia |
| January 8, 2012 | Ward Carroll | Featured discussion of Military.com |
| January 15, 2012 | Glenn Kessler | Featured discussion of Kessler's "The Fact Checker" column in The Washington Post. |
| January 22, 2012 | Diana West | |
| January 29, 2012 | Michael Hastings | Featured discussion of Hastings's book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan. |
| February 5, 2012 | Ray Mabus | Featured discussion of Mabus's role as Secretary of the Navy. |
| February 12, 2012 | Josh Marshall | Featured discussion of Talking Points Memo |
| February 19, 2012 | Charles Evans, Jr. and Victor DeNoble | Featured discussion of Evans's documentary Addiction Incorporated, which featured DeNoble. |
| February 26, 2012 | Neera Tanden | Featured discussion of the Center for American Progress |
| March 4, 2012 | Robert Kagan | Featured discussion of Kagan's book The World America Made. |
| March 11, 2012 | Tim Weiner | Featured discussion of Weiner's book Enemies: The History of the FBI. |
| March 18, 2012 | Walter E. Williams | |
| March 25, 2012 | Sonja Sohn | Featured discussion of Sohn's organization ReWired for Change. |
| April 1, 2012 | Jerry Ensminger and Rachel Libert | Featured discussion of the documentary Semper Fi: Always Faithful, directed by Libert and featuring Ensminger. |
| April 8, 2012 | United States Senate Youth Program | |
| April 15, 2012 | Katrina Lantos Swett | |
| April 22, 2012 | Douglas Wissing | Featured discussion of Wissing's book Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll The Taliban. |
| April 29, 2012 | Blaine Harden | Featured discussion of Harden's book Escape From Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West. |
| May 6, 2012 and May 20, 2012 | Robert Caro | Featured discussion of Caro's bookThe Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, which is the fourth of five volumes in Caro's study of Lyndon Johnson. |
| May 13, 2012 | Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy | Featured discussion of Gibbs's and Duffy's book The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity. This interview was one hour and 35 minutes long. |
| May 27, 2012 | Clint Hill | Featured discussion of Hill's book Mrs. Kennedy and Me. |
| June 3, 2012 | Douglas Brinkley | Featured discussion of Brinkley's biography of Walter Cronkite. |
| June 10, 2012 | Angela T. Rye | Featured discussion of the Congressional Black Caucus |
| June 17, 2012 | Brian Kamoie | |
| June 24, 2012 | Dan Balz | |
| July 1, 2012 | Gretchen Morgenson | Discussion of Morgenson's book Reckless Endangerment |
| July 8, 2012 | Kirk S. Lippold | Featured discussion of Lippold's book Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole |
| July 15, 2012 | Antony Beevor | Featured discussion of Beevor's book The Second World War |
| July 22, 2012 | David Wood | Featured discussion of Wood's 10-part series for the Huffington Post, Beyond the Battlefield: The War Goes on for the Severely Wounded |
| July 29, 2012 | Antonin Scalia | |
| August 5, 2012 | Rep. John Lewis | Featured discussion of Lewis's book Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change. |
| August 12, 2012 | Andrew Nagorski | Featured discussion of Nagorski's book Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to the Nazi Rise to Power. |
| August 19, 2012 | Walter Pincus | |
| August 26, 2012 | Julianna Goldman | |
| September 2, 2012 | Ami Horowitz | Featured discussion of Horowitz's documentary U.N. Me. |
| September 9, 2012 | Colbert I. King | |
| September 16, 2012 | Andrew Kaczynski | Featured discussion of Kaczynski's research for BuzzFeed. |
| September 23, 2012 | Neil Barofsky | Discussion of Barofsky's book Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street. |
| September 30, 2012 | Allan Sloan and Geoff Colvin | Featured discussion of Sloan's and Colvin's work with Fortune magazine. |
| October 7, 2012 | Morley Safer | |
| October 14, 2012 | Evan Thomas | Featured discussion of Thomas's book Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle To Save The World |
| October 21, 2012 | Steve Inskeep | Featured discussion of Inskeep's book Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi. |
| October 28, 2012 | Heidi Ewing | Featured discussion of Ewing's documentary Detropia. |
| November 4, 2012 | Walter Stahr | Featured discussion of Stahr's book Seward: Lincoln's Indispensable Man. |
| November 11, 2012 | Matthew Heineman | Featured discussion of Heineman's documentary Escape Fire. |
| November 18, 2012 | Aida Donald | Featured discussion of Donald's book Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman. |
| November 25, 2012 | Ted Widmer | Featured discussion of Widmer's book Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy. |
| December 2, 2012 | Michael Hill | Featured discussion of Hill's book Elihu Washburne: The Diary and Letters of America's Minister to France During The Siege and Commune of Paris. |
| December 9, 2012 | Crystal Wright | Featured discussion of conservativeblackchick.com. |
| December 16, 2012 | Anne Applebaum | Featured discussion of Applebaum's book Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956. |
| December 23, 2012 | Paul Reid | Featured discussion of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965, the third volume of William Manchester's trilogy on Winston Churchill, which Manchester asked Reid to finish. |
| December 30, 2012 | Kevin Phillips | Featured discussion of Phillips's book 1775: A Good Year for Revolution. |