Meagan Day is a writer and editor focusing on labor issues, economic inequality, and US politics.

She is an Associate Editor at Jacobin, the Editor of the Global Labour Column, and a Consulting Editor at the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. In 2025, she will be hosting a series of videos on class in America for More Perfect Union.

Day is the author of the creative nonfiction book Maximum Sunlight (Wolfman Books, December 2016), an excerpt of which was selected for inclusion in the Best American series, and the co-author with Micah Uetricht of the book Bigger than Bernie (Verso, April 2020), about the impact of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns and the future prospects for progressive organizing in America.

Day’s articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, Vox, n+1, and elsewhere. Most of her work has appeared in Jacobin. Her writing has been translated into German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Chinese, and other languages. She has been interviewed by the Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and the Harvard Political Review.

Day has spoken around the world about US politics and society, from Berlin to Montreal to Delhi. In 2022 she addressed the Oxford Union on the topic of the "American Dream" in a global context. She is a founding member of the Berlin-based Tipping Point Institute, dedicated to encouraging a radical change in political economy for the health of human society and the planet.

​She lives in Los Angeles, California. Email her at meagan.day@jacobin.com