Maybe yours proudly declares “Dog Mom,” shows off your favorite national park or flexes your alma mater. But as fun and harmless as they seem, those colorful decals could actually be putting you at ...

Drivers are far more likely to honk after being cut off by a vehicle bearing a political bumper sticker — especially one from ...

Claire Evans of Yacht with the bumper stickers she makes at her home in Highland Park. (Chiara Alexa / For The Times) Jeanne Vaccaro, a scholar and curator from Kansas, always wanted to become a ...

You’ve seen them before, in Trader Joe’s parking lots and on Eastern Seaboard freeways, in the quiet streets of Asheville and Berkeley, on the bumpers of a fleet of VWs and Volvos. White letters, blue ...

In 1992, Bill Clinton was dubbed the comeback kid. In 2004, the comeback kid is likely the political bumper sticker, which actually has enticed people, after years of shunning such expression, to wear ...

People have been putting bumper stickers on their cars since the 1940s, when a Kansas City screen printer named Forrest P. Gill invented them. Gill got his hands on some adhesive-backed paper and ...

There is something quintessentially American about political bumper stickers. They are blunt, dogmatic, occasionally witty and always provocative. If that’s not an apt description of the zeitgeist, I ...

A burger joint in Illinois is receiving a lot of attention after one customer called the restaurant out for displaying a controversial bumper sticker, which some are calling offensive. “Come for the ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh. You're listening to These Days on KPBS. Every once in a while, if you sort through the nonsense, the inappropriate comments and whose child was an ...

We are our bumper stickers. They are one way we use to define ourselves and announce our various identities to the outside world: that we voted for Bush or Gore; that we're a Buckeye or a Wolverine; ...

Los Angeles has reached peak bumper sticker: It’s now common to see cars displaying a rainbow of decals. Today’s stickers often mimic classic formulations from bumper stickers past and declare loyalty ...