A banana republic is a third-world country in which few people do much of anything productive, and most people depend on government welfare, while the government is basically a machinery for ...

This isn’t a banana republic. “What Trump and Hegseth are doing is un-American, unpatriotic. It’s the definition of politicizing our military, and we should expect to see loyalty oaths (not ...

and was reportedly involved in various U.S. government interventions that propped up right-wing, anti-Communist regimes. More broadly, the term "banana republic" is often used to describe any ...

That is banana-republic talk. It is the very definition of what “a government of laws and not of men” is not. In 1997, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a sitting president had no ...

The United States doesn't fully meet the definition of a banana republic—we don't have an economy dependent on resources, like bananas. But in terms of unstable politics in which government ...

Corrupt Alliance of Big Business and Big Government Trends ... has become a “fascist banana republic” and now lives up to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s definition of fascism: the ...

Pam Danziger reports on retail, focused on the luxury consumer market. News just broke that Banana Republic’s president and CEO Sandra Stangl has been shown the door. While a company spokesperso ...

Sandra Stangl is out at Banana Republic. She had been CEO since 2020, when she came in as an expert in home goods. She came from the furniture start-up Mine and developed a new furniture concept ...

even if some trappings of constitutional government remain. Another variation on the banana republic claim is that Trump is being charged for petty offenses, on weak evidence, or on the basis of ...

When Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for new elections aimed at ending the current government in Israel ... We are not a banana republic.” Netanyahu found a receptive ear ...