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On the next Fresh Air – Terry looks back at the year in movies and TV with our film critic JUSTIN CHANG and our TV critic DAVID BIANCULLI.

On the next Morning Edition, Texas lawmakers wrestle over the line between stopping voter fraud and hurting voter rights.

From sports drinks to protein powders, from compression therapy to cupping — there's a whole industry of products and services designed to help us adapt to and recover from exercise.

But does any of it work? That's the question science writer Christie Aschwanden set out to answer in her new book, Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery.

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This is FRESH AIR. Our next guest, Brian Palmer, is a journalist, photographer and filmmaker who directed the film "Full Disclosure," based on his time embedded with Marines in Iraq.

I'm not sure that any creature is more marvelous than the honeybee, with its highly evolved social organization, its ability to create honey, and, of course, the stinger that causes us to take heed whenever we hear buzzing.

Last week, Facebook announced the most serious security breach in its history, in which unknown hackers were able to log onto the accounts of nearly 50 million Facebook users.

That breach was just one of several crises plaguing the world's largest social media platform.

Serious data breaches and the Russian disinformation campaign in 2016 have put Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, under scrutiny as the mid-term elections approach.

The Democratic presidential primaries are more than a year away. But candidates are already focused on a crucial task - winning over black voters.

On the next Morning Edition, young e-cigarette smokers are multiplying. Would a ban reverse that trend? Also, baseball season got here fast! But has the game become too slow for fans? Hear news, and stories you'll talk about all day on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.

President Trump has been making the case to draw down U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

On the next Fresh Air, the exploitation of actresses during Hollywood’s classical era, to fulfill the desires of the men who had power over them and the fantasies of male ticket buyers.

As the cost of prescription medication soars, consumers are increasingly taking generic drugs: low-cost alternatives to brand-name medicines. Often health insurance plans require patients to switch to generics as a way of controlling costs.

On the next Fresh Air, how the British paper The Guardian partnered with Edward Snowden and Wikileaks to publish classified documents and the consequences the paper faced.

Historian Daniel Immerwahr shares surprising stories of U.S. territorial expansion, including how the desire for bird guano compelled the seizure of remote islands. His book is How to Hide an Empire.