A-Rod to Unravel Stories of Steroid Use

• The NFL's Concussion Conundrum

  Sports

  Dave Zirin: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell seems to understand that when athletes play with a concussion, it is bad for their health--and for business. But do his reforms go far enough?

• Women Ski Jumpers Grounded

  Sports

  Dave Zirin: A Canadian judge allows the International Olympic Committee to trump Canadian equal rights law and keep women ski jumpers out of the Vancouver Olympics.

• LA Clippers Owner Pays Out for Race-Based Housing Discrimination

  Sports

  Dave Zirin: Donald Sterling was just obligated to pay out the largest settlement ever obtained by the government in a housing discrimination case involving apartment rentals.

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• Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan

  Blackwater

  MSNBC : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill on how the US Joint Special Operations Command has hired some Blackwater operatives to plan assassinations.

• Going Rouge: An American Nightmare

  Sarah Palin

  MSNBC : Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel weighs in on Sarah Palin's book tour and our magazine's book countering it.

• Why Is the US Paying Off the Taliban?

  US Military

  MSNBC : The Nation's Jeremy Scahill appears on MSNBC to discuss his colleague Aram Roston's new investigation into how the US funds the Taliban.