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Ben Meets America!

Ben Kawaller Asks New Yorkers: Is Luigi Mangione a Hero or a Villain?
He hits the streets to find out whose side they’re really on.
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WATCH: Steve Bannon Talks Luigi Mangione, Racial Representation, and America’s Seething Anger
Trump’s former barn burner gives a one-on-one interview to The Free Press’s Ben Kawaller.
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WATCH: Matt Walsh Talks DEI, Division, and Robin DiAngelo
A new documentary ‘Am I Racist?’ goes deep into the anti-racism industry. Ben Kawaller sits down with its maker.
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What If the Most Notorious Murder of a Gay Man Wasn’t a Hate Crime?
A generation ago, Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered in what appeared to be a homophobic attack. This month, Ben Kawaller traveled to the scene of…
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WATCH: Kicked Out of a Climate Rally
Face to face with the apocalyptic environmentalists of Extinction Rebellion, Ben Kawaller asks: “Is there a fear that you might look a bit silly?”
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WATCH: Ben Kawaller Tries to Ruin the Kentucky Derby
Our correspondent tried to foment class war at the country’s most prestigious horse race. But it’s hard to bring a rich man down.
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WATCH: Is America Racist? Reggae Fans Aren’t So Sure
Ben Kawaller reports from the Dallas Reggae Festival, where one black Southern woman said the unthinkable: ‘I’ve never really experienced racism!’
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WATCH: An Atheist Finds Faith Among the Mormons
‘These guys produced the last normal Republican presidential nominee. Who am I to judge?’
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WATCH: The California Progressives Trying to Cancel Affordable Housing
Ben Kawaller on how his ‘progressive’ neighbors don’t want low-income residents to move to West Hollywood.
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WATCH: ‘This Is My First Rodeo’ | Ben Meets America
In Arlington, Texas, our correspondent mingled with cowboys and witnessed his first Red State land acknowledgment.
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WATCH: RFK Jr.’s Supporters Made Me Doubt the Truth
The latest installment of Ben Meets America is out now.
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Ben Meets the Lady Lowriders of California
In his latest dispatch from America, Free Press correspondent Ben Kawaller asks members of an all-female car club: What do you think of the patriarchy?
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