A safari-themed Banana Republic, ca. 1989 [Photo: Bryan Moss/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images] Of course, there aren’t safaris in the South American countries typically described as ...

This kind of justice might make sense in a South American banana republic. It makes no sense in the United States of America. Seizing property must require a higher threshold. The government ...

In the early nineteen-hundreds, the American writer O. Henry coined the term “banana republic” in a series ... national political debate ever since. Pictures of National Guard troops arrayed ...

When someone mentions a “banana republic ... When American politicians and political commentators use the term, they’re often trying to conjure up images of corruption, repression and ...

The picture presented to the world has been of America as a banana republic. We have descended so far so fast that it is sometimes difficult to remember that this is not normal. It was only eight ...

Is there merit to Nicholas Kristof's assertion that America, in its lopsided distribution ... you no longer need to visit a banana republic. You can just look around. My point was that the ...

Samuel Zemurray and the Cuyamel Fruit Company shaped the original "banana republic" and launched the American banana craze. Never heard of Cuyamel? It was one of the ancestors of Chiquita Brands ...