Kaplan is a writer and editor at Newsweek, where he edits the Enterprise section and the annual college issue. Kaplan is a graduate of Cornell University and the New York University School of Law During the 1994-1995 academic year, he was a John S. Knight fellow in journalism at Stanford University. Kaplan lives north of New York City with his wife, attorney Audrey S. Feinberg, and their two sons.