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 ...

WASHINGTON We are our bumper stickers. They are one way that we 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 ...

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 ...

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Campaign bumper stickers are part of a hallowed (if sometimes raucous) tradition, as Martha Teichner now tells us: It’s been said that Americans consider their cars extensions of their personalities, ...

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 ...

From gridlock to a Sunday cruise, people are spending considerable time in their vehicles. Bumper stickers provide an advertising venue for businesses as well as an outlet for drivers' self-expression ...

Gone are the days of “Coexist” or “This car climbed Mt. Washington.” Bumper stickers have lately gotten a lot weirder, and much more niche. By Charles W. McFarlane You can spot them in the parking lot ...

Learn the similarities between bumper stickers and social media, reflecting on their role in public expression.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claire Evans of Yacht with the bumper stickers she makes at her home in Highland Park. (Chiara Alexa / For The Times) Jeanne ...