The American bumper sticker has undergone a major “glow-up” in the last 30 years. A political glow-up, that is. The modern bumper sticker has gone through more fashion trends than the Kardashians.

Are political bumper stickers effective advertising tools? As the nation counts down the days until the Iowa presidential caucus, Patti Brown seeks to answer that question and others on Driving ...

The latest is the "Ax Max" bumper sticker distributed by the Montana Republican Party aimed at U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat seeking re-election in 2002. This slogan won a contest on the GOP's ...

Before the 1964 presidential election, Harold E. Feinstein and his Aldine Publishing Co. took a bipartisan approach. The company sold bumper stickers to both the Goldwater and Johnson campaigns. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About a month ago, I made a Gmail address for a fictional woman in York, Pennsylvania named Diane, about two hours west of Philadelphia, and signed up for emails from every Democratic candidate for ...