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Kevin McCarthy gets his chance to bang the gavel.

Readers write about the author of “Little Women.” Also: Brazil’s insurrection; credit for ghostwriters; law school rankings; resisting temptation.

President Biden marked the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack by awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to 14 people.

Some of the same Republicans who were former President Donald J. Trump’s lieutenants in seeking to overturn the 2020 election led the charge against Representative Kevin McCarthy as speaker.

The Presidential Citizens Medal will honor those who resisted efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including law enforcement officers and Rusty Bowers, the former House speaker in Arizona.

The Justice Department’s investigation of the Capitol attack, already the largest it has ever conducted, has resulted in 900 arrests, with the potential for scores or hundreds more to come.

The suit in the death of Brian D. Sicknick seeks millions in damages from the former president, whom it paints as responsible for the violence that day, and two Capitol rioters.

The tension between myth and reality does not undermine the U.S. It defines it.

A new documentary from Gédéon and Jules Naudet recounts the day of the U.S. Capitol attack.

The Jan. 6 committee released a whirlwind of documents in its final days and wrapped up its work on Monday.