5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan

Douglas MacMillan, a Washington Post reporter who investigates corporate and contractor harms, discusses privatized ICE detention centers. He describes inspections at tent facilities, rising deaths in custody, profit motives of GEO Group and CoreCivic, weakened oversight, staffing and medical failures, and how evidence is gathered from inside facilities.

Nida Allam, Durham county commissioner and progressive congressional candidate, talks politics rooted in working-class struggles. She covers affordability, housing, childcare, wages, and threats to voting rights. She explains opposition to unlimited Israeli military aid and calls for Palestinian self-determination. She also discusses corporate power, Islamophobia, reaching unaffiliated voters, and rebuilding political energy.

Shia LaBeouf, actor and performance artist known for bold public work, talks about moving to New Orleans, his Mardi Gras arrest, sobriety struggles and spiritual life. He reflects on family roots, jail moments, recovery practices, and why Mardi Gras and New Orleans culture matter to him. Short, candid, and occasionally intense conversation.

Here is our sit-down with Congressman Ro Khanna, who was one of the lawmakers behind the Epstein Transparency Act. Enjoy. 

In this episode, we sit down with NYT journalist Maya Tekeli to discuss the possibility of the US acquiring Greenland and the potential implications of that reality.

In this interview, we speak with Nick Shirley about his reporting on alleged fraud connected to daycare programs in Minnesota, a story that became one of the most widely engaged digital journalism pieces in recent years.

Two years after meeting Budd on the streets of Philadelphia, where he was struggling with addiction to Tranq, we sat down with him again to hear how his life has changed as he works toward recovery.

We sat down with UCLA professor James Gelvin to discuss the latest in the Israel-Palestine conflict and the fragility of the ceasefire agreement.

We sat down with Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to discuss AI, NYC's mayoral election, Tucker Carlson's "fake gay" accusation, and more.

We sat down with Hamilton Morris from Hamilton's Pharmacopeia to discuss Vice, psychedelic reporting, and how far a paid activist group went to block MDMA from medicinal use.