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 ...

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 ...

Even more banana republic is Bragg’s broader policy to indict political opponents while he lets violent criminals roam free as one of the most “progressive” prosecutors in the country.

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.” ...

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 ...

“I think that’s an insult to Banana Republics across the country. I mean, at least the manager of Banana Republic, unlike our president, knows where he is and why he’s there and what he’s ...

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 ...