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 ...

Q Your reader Alexandra Adams isn’t looking hard enough for presidential bumper stickers. My wife picked this out for her car. From top to bottom on an oversized red-white-blue bumper sticker it reads ...

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 ...

Most bumper stickers are worthy of all the eye rolls they get. Having a “Honk if You Love Jesus” or “Honor Roll Parent” bumper sticker is the automotive equivalent of wearing socks with sandals. Or ...

The other day I spotted an arresting bumper sticker: “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for the Other Guy.” Unlike so many similar decals, it bore no hint of which “other guy” was under discussion. Just blue ...

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 ...

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 ...

Traffic sucks. It's just fumes and honking, for the most part. But occasionally, a little bit of color emerges on the back of the car in front of you—a bumper sticker can turn a dull commute into a ...

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 ...

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