We are not a banana republic.” Netanyahu found a receptive ear among Senate Republicans, whom he addressed in a virtual closed-door speech on Wednesday. Sen. Ted Cruz reiterated afterward that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Second, prosecuting a former political leader is not what will turn the United States into a “banana republic.” Indeed, I have some unfortunate news for the nervous Nellies: Our country is ...

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.” ...

he wrote of the banana trade in a fictional Central American country he called “the banana republic of Costaragua." The story was later incorporated into his novel “Cabbages and Kings," se ...