Meagan Day

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| birth_place = San Antonio, Texas, United States

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| employer = Jacobin

| organization = Democratic Socialists of America

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Meagan Day is an American writer and journalist from Texas. Day is an editor at Jacobin, where she was previously a staff writer. She is the author of the book Maximum Sunlight (2016), and co-author of the book Bigger than Bernie (2020).

Life and career

Day was born in Austin, Texas, and raised in San Antonio.{{Sfnmp|Mother Jones|2016}} She received her bachelor's degree at Oberlin College, graduating in 2012. After working for The Believer, and as a personal assistant to writer Dave Eggers at McSweeney's, she went on to earn her master's degree from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2013.{{Sfnmp|Mother Jones|2016|Baird|2019}}

In 2016, Day released her non-fiction book Maximum Sunlight, concerning the town of Tonopah, Nevada. The book features photographs from various locations in Tonopah taken by Hannah Klein.{{Sfnmp|Durif|2017}}

After working briefly at Mother Jones, Day was hired at Jacobin in 2017 as a full-time staff writer. In 2020, along with co-author Micah Uetricht, Day published the book Bigger than Bernie: How We Can Win Democratic Socialism in Our Time.{{Sfnmp|Nelson|2020|Lukacs|2020|Guy|2020|Buhle|2020|Weigel|2020}}

Day has described herself as a socialist, and is an active member of the Democratic Socialists of America.{{Sfnmp|Winters|2020}}

Works

{{cite book |last=Day |first=Meagan |author-mask=1 |others=Photographs by Hannah Klein |date=2016 |title=Maximum Sunlight |url= |location=Oakland, CA |publisher=E.M. Wolfman |isbn=978-0-9983-4610-6 |OCLC=978251367 |ref=none}}{{Sfnmp|Durif|2017}}
{{cite book |last1=Day |first1=Meagan |last2=Uetricht |first2=Micah |author-mask=1 |date=2020 |title=Bigger than Bernie: How We Can Win Democratic Socialism in Our Time |url= |location=London |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-7887-3838-5 |OCLC=1256050456 |ref=none}}{{Sfnmp|Nelson|2020|Lukacs|2020|Guy|2020|Buhle|2020|Weigel|2020}}

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{{cite web |author= |date=29 December 2016 |title=When Powerful Players Clash, We Need the Free Press More Than Ever |url=https://medium.com/mother-jones/when-powerful-players-clash-we-need-the-free-press-more-than-ever-b0d23c11b56d |access-date=November 5, 2020 |website=Medium |ref={{Sfnref|Mother Jones|2016}} |language=en}}
{{cite web |last=Baird |first=Robert P. |date=2 January 2019 |title=The ABCs of Jacobin |url=https://www.cjr.org/special_report/the-abcs-of-jacobin-socialist-magazine.php/ |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=November 5, 2020 |work=Columbia Journalism Review |publisher=Columbia University |language=en}}
{{cite news |last=Nelson |first=Robbie |date=17 August 2020 |title=Transforming the State: 'Bigger than Bernie' |url=https://www.dsausa.org/blog/transforming-the-state-bigger-than-bernie/ |work= |publisher=Democratic Socialists of America |location= |access-date=29 May 2025}}
{{cite news |last=Lukacs |first=Martin |date=30 June 2020 |title=Socialism or Bidenism: Where does the U.S. left go after Sanders? |url=https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/socialism-or-bidenism/ |work=Policy Alternatives |location= |publisher=Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |access-date=29 May 2025}}
{{cite news |last=Guy |first=Johnathan |date=4 August 2020 |title=Unpacking Class-Struggle Social Democracy: An Interview with Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht |url=https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2020/8/4/unpacking-class-struggle-social-democracy-an-interview-with-megan-day-and-micah-uetricht |work=The Trouble |location= |publisher= |access-date=29 May 2025}}
{{cite news |last=Buhle |first=Paul |date=22 April 2020 |title=Bernie Sanders and Our Day of Destiny: New books explore the future of U.S. socialism |url=https://progressive.org/latest/bernie-sanders-and-our-day-of-destiny-buhle-200422/ |work=The Progressive |location=Wisconsin, USA |publisher= |access-date=29 May 2025}}
{{cite news |last=Weigel |first=David |date=9 April 2020 |title=The Trailer: Why Bernie Sanders lost |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paloma/the-trailer/2020/04/09/the-trailer-why-bernie-sanders-lost/5e8de29488e0fa101a75e117/ |url-access=subscription |work=The Washington Post |location= |publisher= |access-date=29 May 2025}}
{{cite news |last=Winters |first=Joseph |date=2 March 2020 |title=The Future of Left Politics: An Interview with Meagan Day |url=https://harvardpolitics.com/the-future-of-left-politics-an-interview-with-meagan-day/ |work=Harvard Political Review |location= |publisher=Harvard Institute of Politics |access-date=29 May 2025}}
{{cite news |last=Durif |first=Olivia |date=18 August 2017 |title=The Last Bastion of Free America?: Meagan Day's "Maximum Sunlight" |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-last-bastion-of-free-america-meagan-days-maximum-sunlight/ |work=Los Angeles Review of Books |location=California, USA |publisher= |access-date=29 May 2025}}