Meagan Day has written over 500 articles for publication online and in print. 400 of those and counting have been published in Jacobin, where she has worked as a writer and editor since 2017, and is now Senior Editor. She has also written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, The Baffler, n+1, Vox, Salon, The Week, ArtReview, Frieze, and elsewhere.

Below is a small selection of her favorite articles in Jacobin, sorted by genre and publication, with a preference for more recent work. You can see all of her Jacobin articles here.

JACOBIN POLITICAL COMMENTARY

“Sadism Saturates Trump’s America” (Jacobin, February 2026)

“Has The American Working Class Been Bought-Off?” (Jacobin, February 2026)

“The Zohran Mamdani Model of Exuberant Good Cheer” (Jacobin, November 2025)

“Patriotism Against Authoritarianism” (Jacobin, October 2025)

“America’s Split-Screen Economy” (Jacobin, September 2025)

“Silicon Valley Was Woke. Now They Want Blood.” (Jacobin, June 2025)

“Welcome to Utopia, TX” (Jacobin, print, Summer 2024) - awarded runner-up for the Daniel Singer Millennium Prize

“The Indifferent and the Defiant” (Jacobin, print, Winter 2021)

“Message In A Bottle” (Jacobin, print, Fall 2020)


JACOBIN CULTURAL COMMENTARY

“Only Love Can Set the Looksmaxxer Free” (Jacobin, March 2026)

“A Left Response to the Birth Rate Crisis” (Jacobin, July 2025)

“How Social Reactionaries Exploit Economic Nostalgia” (Jacobin, May 2025)

“The Norwegian Route Out of Tradwife Hell” (Jacobin, April 2025)


JACOBIN HISTORICAL PIECES

“The Forgotten History of Socialism and the Occult” (Jacobin, October 2025)

“How the Mexican Revolution Made John Reed a Red” (Jacobin, November 2021)

“Fassbinder and the Red Army Faction” (Jacobin, August 2021)

“There Once Was a Socialist College in the Rural South” (Jacobin, June 2021)

“The Nazis Stole May Day, But Socialists Took It Back” (Jacobin, May 2021)


MISCELLANEOUS OTHER OUTLETS

“The Myth of the Socially Conscious Corporation” (The New Republic, January 2023)

“LA’s Teachers Can Teach the Working Class About the Power of Labor Strikes” (The Guardian, 2019)

“Why America Needs Medicare for All” (New York Times, August 2018)

“Why You Should Care About Unions” (New York Times, August 2018)

“The Shark and the Hound” (The Baffler, December 2017)