“The helmet’s really a story, whether it’s the lettermen, the bowl games, the TED stickers (“There Every Day,” given for participating in every spring and fall practice), all that ...

We sent our man Alex Reid to the home of Panini stickers to find out why the primitive ritual of tearing open a packet of stickers and filling an album still stirs a magical feeling in a digital age.

Many voters are eager to post on Instagram or TikTok photos of themselves with a sticker after getting it at the polls or peeling it off of a mail-in ballot packet. But the origin story of this ...