All Episodes

Q&A: Every Screen on the Planet: Emily Baker-White on the Future of Technology and Society

AW: The Mission: Tim Weiner on How the CIA Operates in the Modern Era

BN+: Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Failure: Communism in the 20th Century

Q&A: Peter Navarro Reflects on Politics, Prison, and the Trump Presidency

Lee Tilghman on ‘If You Don’t Like This I Might Die’: Life Inside Influencer Culture

BN+: Edward Luce, "Zbig"- Zbigniew Brzezinski & Carter Era U.S. Foreign Policy

Q&A: Ann Butler, "Wife, Mother, Spy" — Women, Espionage, and the CIA

AW: Gianno Caldwell, "The Day My Brother Was Murdered" — Crime, Justice, and Loss

BN+: Simon Ball, "Death to Order"

Q&A: John Malone, "Born to Be Wired"

AW: Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"

BN+: Sam Tanenhaus, "Buckley"

Q&A: Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"

AW: Kathleen deLaski, "Who Needs College Anymore?"

BN+: Jay Winik, "1861"

Q&A: Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career

AW: Michael Grynbaum, "Empire of the Elite"

BN+: Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

Q&A: Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"

AW: Isabel Allende, "My Name Is Emilia del Valle"

BN+: David Herbert Donald, "Lincoln"

Q&A: Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

AW: Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager & Isaac Arnsdorf, "2024"

BN+: Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner"

Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

AW: "Framed," John Grisham and Jim McCloskey

BN+: John Seabrook, "The Spinach King"

Q&A: Cornel West & Robert George, "Truth Matters"

AW: Patrick McGee, "Apple in China"

BN+: Evan Osnos, "The Haves and Have-Yachts"

Q&A: Presidential Legacies

AW: Bill Clinton and James Patterson, "First Gentleman"

BN+: Dave Barry, "Class Clown"

Dr. Robert Malone, "PsyWar"

AW: Senator Lisa Murkowski, "Far From Home"

BN+: John Laurence, "The Cat from Hue"

Q&A: Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair

AW: Jose Andres. "Change the Recipe"

BN+: Lien-Hang Nguyen, "Hanoi's War"

Q&A: Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"

Dave and Dina McCormick, "Who Believed in You?"

BN+: William Geroux, "The Fifteen"

Q&A: Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

AW: Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults

BN+: Claire Hoffman, "Sister, Sinner"

Q&A: Mark Whitaker, "The Afterlife of Malcolm X"

AW: Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat - The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"

BN+: Kathryn Olmsted, "Red Spy Queen"

Q&A: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Co-Founder

AW: Stephanie Land, "Maid"

BN+: Kenneth Rogoff, "Our Dollar, Your Problem"

Q&A: Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"

BN+: Rick Atkinson, "The Fate of the Day"

Q&A: Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

BN+: Rick Atkinson, "An Army at Dawn"

Q&A: Christopher Cox, "Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn"

AW: Leah Litman, "Lawless - How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes"

BN+: Thomas Maier, "The Invisible Spy"

Q&A: John Kasich, "Heaven Help Us"

AW: Sophie Gilbert, "Girl on Girl - How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves"

BN+: Clay Risen, "Red Scare"

Q&A: Kathleen deLaski, "Who Needs College Anymore?"

AW: David Graham, "The Project - How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America"

BN+: Jill Eicher, "Mellon vs. Churchill"

Q&A: Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"

AW: Stephen Witt, "The Thinking Machine - Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip"

BN+: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, "Smarter Healthcare with AI"

Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

AW: Viet Thanh Nguyen, "To Save and to Destroy - Writing as an Other

BN+: Phil Tinline, "Ghosts of Iron Mountain"

Q&A: Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

AW: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), "Turnaround - America's Revival"

BN+: Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin"

Q&A: Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

AW: David Enrich, "Murder the Truth"

BN+: Dennis Hutchinson, "The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox"

Q&A: Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career

AW: Paul Blustein, "King Dollar - The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency"'

BN+: Stuart Banner, "The Most Powerful Court in the World"

Q&A: Loretta Ross, "Calling In"

AW: Michael Lewis, "Who is Government?"

The C-SPAN Story

BN+: Steven Gillon, "Presidents at War"

Q&A: Meryl Gordon, "The Woman Who Knew Everyone"

AW: Dr. Adam Ratner, "Booster Shots -The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health"

BN+ Alexandra Richie, "Warsaw 1944"

Q&A: Rep. James Comer (R-KY), "All the President's Money"

AW: Omar El Akkad, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"

BN+: Katherine Carter, "Churchill's Citadel"

Q&A: Tara Roberts, "Written in the Waters"

Kevin Fagan, "The Lost and the Found - A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances"

BN+: Ruth Franklin, "The Many Lives of Anne Frank"

Q&A: Louis Ferrante, "Borgata: Clash of Titans" PART 2

AW: Eve Ewing, "Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism"

BN+: Sean McMeekin, "July 1914"

Q&A: Louis Ferrante, "Borgata: Clash of Titans" PART 1

AW: Anson Frericks, "Last Call for Bud Light"

BN+: David Levering Lewis, "The Stained Glass Window"

Q&A: Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

AW: Omo Moses, "The White Peril - A Family Memoir"