Well, according to the experts we talked to, including three current and former law enforcement professionals and a professor of sociology and criminology, your bumper stickers might be revealing more ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s election season, which means an uptick in the number of car bumpers declaring their drivers’ political allegiances. The application of the political sticker is a ritual I know well: When I was ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH (Host): I'm Maureen Cavanaugh. You're listening to These Days on KPBS. Every once in a while, if you sort through the nonsense, the inappropriate comments and whose child was an ...

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 ...

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 ...