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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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