Political Samsara is a satirical newspaper with a cartoonist’s hand. It reports on politics, technology, money, the planet, religion, pop culture, sports, wellness and love, in English, Spanish and French.
The idea
Every few years humanity reorganises society. New leaders, new parties, new apps, new wars to end the old wars. The mind doing the reorganising stays exactly where it was: afraid, greedy, tribal and sure of itself. The rest is reincarnation.
The name comes from that loop. The series grew out of the dialogues between Jiddu Krishnamurti and David Bohm published as The Ending of Time, which ask whether thought can change anything it keeps producing.
So the paper criticises the frame, not only the villain. The villain is usually easy. The frame is the one you are standing in.
The house rules
- Deadpan, third person, no winks. The joke is in the facts.
- Every piece is satire unless it says otherwise. If a headline turns out to be true, that is not our fault.
- Cartoons first. Every cartoon lands on Instagram before anywhere else, and the best of them live in the Cartoons section.
- Readers pay for it, or nobody does. There are no advertisers to please. Back it from €3.
Who makes it
Political Samsara is made by Christian Langebeck and Santiago Ospina, the two founders of Raw Literature. Between them they cover the drawing, the writing and the three languages. Both have been told to get a real job, in all three.
Political Samsara began on Raw Literature, our older home for poetry and fiction, which still lives at rawliterature.com.
Write to us
Letters, corrections, complaints from heads of state: raw@rawliterature.com. More on the contact page.