‘Banana Republic’: A Label That Every Country Wants to Avoid A public fight over the U.S.-Israel relationship has highlighted a derogatory term for small countries By ...

These days, “banana republic” is rarely used in everyday speech in reference to another country; politicians and journalists have been using it more frequently to describe the U.S. in the wake ...

Republican North Carolina congressional candidate Bo Hines said in a recent interview that referring to the U.S. as a banana republic is “an insult to Banana Republics across the country.&#82… ...

Junior, of course, has it exactly backwards. If the term 'banana republic' means anything at all, it refers to a country governed by a self-dealing class of elites who use state institutions ...

Wikipedia defines banana republic as “a political-science term for a politically unstable country.” It continues and calls a banana republic a “country operated as a private commercial ...

Nervous pundits warn that for the good of the country, the Justice Department ought not to indict Donald Trump, since prosecuting a former president is the sort of thing “banana republics” do.

Despite the name’s commercialization, “banana republic" continues to evoke a pejorative air for a country unable to manage its own business. And as Netanyahu demonstrated, no nation wants to ...