Meagan Day has written over five hundred articles for publication online and in print. Four hundred 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, The Week, ArtReview, Frieze, and elsewhere. Below is a small selection of her favorite articles, sorted by genre, with a preference for more recent work.

FEATURES

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

“Fentanyl Is the Genie That Won’t Go Back in the Bottle” (Jacobin, May 2021)

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

“Message In A Bottle” (Jacobin, November 2020)


POLITICAL COMMENTARY

“Sadism Saturates Trump’s America” (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)

“Charlie Kirk’s Murder Is a Tragedy and a Disaster” (Jacobin, September 2025)

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

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)

“We Shouldn’t Have to Work This Hard” (Jacobin, March 2025)

“The Romance of American Clintonism” (Jacobin, October 2020)



HISTORY

“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)