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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Maurer covers how personal finance is more personal than finance. and smarter, more talented kids. People don’t put their ...

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 ...