Sarah Kliff

Whether it's a dating mishap or just being left out of an e-mail chain, why it's so hard to brush off even the slightest slight.

Now that the political climate has changed, will those dedicated to eradicating abortion embrace abortion-reduction strategies instead?

How to vet your financial adviser to avert disaster.

At Thanksgiving, vegetarians and vegans object to the menu (and the heckling), while other relatives feel family traditions are being scorned.

By Sarah KliffEarlier today, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida were all in the running to become the problem state of 2012. Where do we stand a few hours later?

By Sarah KliffEarly morning voting is well underway on the East Coast—and so are the voting snafus. As of 10 a.m. Eastern, the Election Protection Hotline had received 27,000 calls from voters who have had trouble at the polls.

By Sarah Kliff There's an abundance of McCain and Obama themed cookies, ice creams and cakes available for order on the Internet. But try and find anything more substantive than dessert and you come up pretty short-handed.

Why are pro-lifers spurning a young true believer?

If you look at tracking polls before your first cup of coffee, you're not alone. How political-news junkies are preparing for campaign withdrawal.

Sarah Palin is well known for rallying her base, getting social conservatives behind the Republican ticket. But there's another constituency that she has gotten plenty excited lately: the big pro-choice groups.

By Sarah Kliff Voting machines in Beaufort County, South Carolina weren't working when early voting started on Oct. 6. The problem? The state had given local election officials the wrong password to format the machines.

Is the mother's-health exception to bans on late-term abortion being abused as John McCain suggested? We take a look at the laws.

Using milkshakes and brain scans, researchers find that some women are genetically predisposed to get less enjoyment from eating and may overeat to compensate.

Expertinent is a regular Stumper column featuring interviews with experts on the news of the day. [youtube:OKs-bTL-pRg] Have you seen an attack ad recently that made you want to vomit?

College campuses have, since 1988, played host to the presidential debates. And those college campuses are traditionally littered with unnecessarily high numbers of a cappella singing groups (more than18,000 students singing at 1,200 campuses, to be precise).

Governor Granholm discusses her role as Biden's debate foil.

By Sarah Kliff We all know the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom. But what exactly is a Pit Bull With Lipstick? Cranberry vodka, pineapple juice and a splash of Grenadine--or at least that's what you got when you ordered one at Slainte, a New York City bar hosting 200 or so twentysomethings gathered to watch the first presidential debate.

Within hours of hurricane Ike's landfall in Texas, San Antonio officials had compiled precise statistics about their evacuee situation. They knew the city would need to care for 5,303 people (561 of whom had special medical needs) and 642 pets, including a turtle named Nibbles.

Millenials debate whether the collapse of Wall Street affects them

During the 2000 election, Palm Beach, Fla., resident Sandy Blank watched, horrified, as her county became a mess of butterfly ballots, hanging chads, erroneous votes for Pat Buchanan—and a national punch line. (The Onion rechristened the state "Flori-duh.") The voting disaster inspired civic activism: Blank become a Palm Beach poll worker. "I wanted to change things," she says.

Jamie Lynn was 'crucified' in the media for her pregnancy, while Bristol Palin was 'celebrated,' says Lynne Spears.

What's a B-school grad to do when Wall Street stops hiring?

By Sarah Kliff CHICAGO, IL - At the beginning of this week, Stumper was looking at Joe Biden's impressive dismantling of claims that he would have trouble debating Gov.

Sarah Kliff has been following Joe Biden on his current swing through the Midwest. Here's her dispatch from Missouri:(AP Photo / Charlie Niebergall) ST. LOUIS, Mo.--When it comes to presidential elections, Missouri knows winners.

Here's NEWSWEEK's Sarah Kliff with a dispatch from the Biden caravan in Wisconsin. GREEN BAY, Wisc.--The airport Radisson in Green Bay doesn't exactly look like a happening spot.

By Sarah Kliff At 17, Mike Knopf is the youngest delegate at the Republican National Convention. He's also the same age as Bristol Palin, Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter--revealed yesterday by the McCain campaign to be five months pregnant. "I've known a couple of people who it's happened to, and surprisingly it really isn't that bad," says the high-school senior from Dubuque, Iowa.

On July 12, a dozen or so anti-war protesters from the Chicago-based Voices for Creative Non-Violence set off on a 500-mile trek to the convention. They've been walking 12 miles a day, meeting with local peace groups at night.

Economist Peter Nickerson, 56, is a proud resident of Seattle, arguably the capital of green America, so it almost goes without saying that he supports aggressive environmental policies.

In this year's party platform, Democrats reaffirmed their support of Roe v. Wade while taking on a new commitment: reducing the number of abortions in the United States.

A mid-August lottery for seats to Barack Obama's Thursday night acceptance speech left many Coloradoans without a seat. But in the spirit of the nominee's campaign, ticketless supporters haven't given up hope.