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Jennifer Lawrence
America's Kick-Ass Sweetheart
How 'Hunger Games' star Jennifer Lawrence became the coolest chick in Hollywood.
By Josh Eells
Photograph by Theo Wenner
"Dude!" says Jennifer Lawrence into her cellphone. “I’m lost as fuck! I’ve been driving around for, like, 10 minutes. Where the hell is this place?” She’s looking for a horse stable. We have plans to go horse backriding in the canyons above Malibu, but neitherof us can find the place. I tell her to pull over and I’ll come find her. The most talented young actress in America is idling on a side street in her white Volkswagen, in blue jeans, a grey T-shirt and designer shades. Her naturally blonde hair is pulled back in a loose ponytail, and her elbows are sticking out of the open window.
Undercover Anarchist
CURRENT AFFAIRS
What happens when a cop falls in love with the radicals he’s spying on? Mark Kennedy found out the hard way.
By David Kushner
Mark Stone watched in alarm as his girlfriend snapped a black bicycle lock around her throat, securing herself to a giant yellow dump truck. “I don’t think this is a good idea,” Stone told her. It was just after dawn near Kárahnjúkar, deep in the Icelandic tundra. Stone and his girlfriend, along with a dozen other activists, had spent the past two weeks camped out in the remote wilderness, one of the last unspoiled areas in all of Europe. Their goal was as clearas it was dangerous: to shut down construction of a 198m dam being built to providepower to Alcoa.
Bruce Springteen
Bruce Springsteen's State of the Union
John Stewart sits down with his home-state hero for a conversation about ‘Wrecking Ball’, the death of Clarence Clemons, and the gap between ‘American reality and the American dream’.
By John Stewart
Photography by Mark Seliger
They have a lot to talk about this evening, these two guys from New Jersey, these serious men with silly jobs. “When he’s talking to his audience,” says Jon Stewart, “he’s put time and effort into that conversation. He wants his music to be about something.” The host of The Daily Show is talking about Bruce Springsteen, and about himself, too: Stewart and Springsteen have each found ways to instil a steeliness of purpose into the acts of singing songs and telling jokes.