Global Satire
Global Satire looks at world events through the lens of political cartoons, comedy, graphic journalism and wit (ha-ha and dark) in all its forms. Our focus is every corner of the globe. The idea is to explore what satirists around the world are poking fun at, or darkly laying bare. Our assumption is that a cartoon, joke, or wry comment can explain a vexing political issue as well (and often better) than any amount of punditry. Created by Carol Hills.
Arts, Culture & Media
PRI's The World
August 04, 2016
Turkey's post-coup crackdown continues and one of President Erdogan's targets is his country's political cartoonists. Their response: Even more biting satire.
Arts, Culture & Media
PRI's The World
May 13, 2016
If you're fighting for human rights in the Arab and Muslim world, where do you go for a confidence boost? A Sudanese political cartoonist chose a road trip across America to visit civil rights landmarks.
Arts, Culture & Media
PRI's The World
April 11, 2016
Americans can now see the Hitler comedy that's been such a hit in Germany. Its director says now is an OK time for Germans to laugh at Hitler. They just have to laugh at the right thing.
Arts, Culture & Media
PRI's The World
March 30, 2016
A new street art campaign in Malaysia shows the prime minister as a evil clown. It's a protest against a corruption scandal involving the prime minister and the police crackdown on dissidents in Kuala Lumpur.
Conflict & Justice
PRI's The World
March 22, 2016
One cartoon that stands out was drawn the day after the Paris attacks in November. The Bulgarian simply re-posted it this morning — and it was just as telling.
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Arts, Culture & Media
'Mike's Place' is the gripping new novel of love, blues and terror in Tel Aviv
PRI's The World
May 29, 2015
A new graphic novel tells the story of a blues bar in Israel, and the suicide bomber who blew it up.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Captain America is a Sikh. You got a problem with that?
PRI's The World
October 17, 2014
Turbaned and proud. That's Vishavjit Singh who responded to the hate directed at him after 9/11 by drawing political cartoons about being Sikh in America. Then he got really bold and dressed up as Captain America and took to the streets of New York City.
Arts, Culture & Media
India Gets Serious About Cartoons
PRI's The World
October 06, 2011
Two Indian political cartoonists have experienced pressure to censor their own work.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Mandela's love for humor was on full display when he sat for an interview with 'Evita'
PRI's The World
December 13, 2013
Updated
Nelson Mandela was many many things, among them a lover of humor and satire. He once sat down for a 30-minute TV interview with a man in a dress pretending to be an apartheid-era Afrikaner housewife. Mandela knew that talking to the fictitious Evita Bezuidenhout was going to reach more people than appearing on the nightly news. Satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys was the man behind Evita.
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Arts, Culture & Media
The vote that set cartoonists off
PRI's The World
June 24, 2016
Cartoonists around the globe drew a collective gasp after the Brexit vote. Then they drew these cartoons.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Here's Nelson Mandela's story, told through political cartoons
PRI's The World
June 13, 2013
Updated
South African cartoonist John Curtis is honoring Nelson Mandela by collecting political cartoons that tell his story. But telling Mandela's story in cartoons is difficult — since South Africa banned any quotes or images of him, including cartoons, for many years, and few knew what he looked like during his 27 years in prison.
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Lifestyle & Belief
What should women wear in public? That depends on how you ask
PRI's The World
January 10, 2014
A new survey asked for opinions about how women should dress in public in the Middle East. The choices included images of women wearing different kinds of head coverings. The results and approach have been widely criticized. So Lebanese satirist Karl Sharro decided to do his own "survey" on what American women should wear.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Sweden opens a hotline to report mansplaining
PRI's The World
November 17, 2016
Have you been mansplained? Wanna vent about it? If you're in Sweden, you can. Gender specialist operators are standing by.
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Arts, Culture & Media
How a Latina with red hair and a Jewish last name challenges ideas about race
PRI's The World
October 01, 2015
Joanna Hausmann gets it. She has a Jewish last name, red hair and has been compared to a Pixar cartoon. But she's not a white girl from Iowa. She's a Venezuelan comic who jokes about our ideas of race.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Yes, it's OK for Germans to laugh about Hitler. Here's why.
PRI's The World
April 11, 2016
Americans can now see the Hitler comedy that's been such a hit in Germany. Its director says now is an OK time for Germans to laugh at Hitler. They just have to laugh at the right thing.