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 ...

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 ...

People are more likely to respond with hostility to bad drivers, if those bad drivers are displaying an out-partisan bumper ...

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 ...

Hit the road in L.A., and you’re likely to spot a cheeky bumper sticker … or 17. As Times contributor Renée Reizman reports, the medium that was once popularized by Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidential ...

(Los Angeles Times photo illustration; photos by readers; Chiara Alexa / For The Times) Here in auto-saturated Los Angeles, the bumper sticker has always been a healthy form of self-expression. But in ...

Long before there were tweets and blogs, there was another way people expressed their opinions and philosophies to the public. The ubiquitous bumper sticker was, and still is, a way for people to make ...

Sometimes bumper stickers are notably helpful. While out driving, you are bound to see vehicles that have the legendary “How Am I Driving?” bumper sticker that silently signals the possibility of ...

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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 ...