Skip to main content
Jordan McGillis on Muck Rack

Jordan McGillis

San Diego
As seen in: Economic Innovation Group (US), CNN, MSN, Bloomberg News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Washington Post Opinions, Yahoo News, Aol, New York Post, Nikkei Asia and
writing about economics, tech, and industrial policy @InnovateEconomy / novak fellow @TFASorg / term member @cfr_org / emergent ventures cohort 51 / views mine
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Jordan

Contact Jordan, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

For workers on Alaska’s North Slope, you “sleep when you’re dead”

|
By Jordan McGillis
| The Washington Post Verified
As I walk around Deadhorse, Alaska, the settlement adjacent to the Prudhoe Bay oil field on the Arctic Coast, I grasp for the first time how sharp the Earth’s axial tilt really is. Up here, on the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope, the summer sun dances in an unending ellipse. By the time of my solstice visit, it hasn’t dropped below the horizon for five weeks. Feeling what I’ve only experienced before as an afternoon’s ambiance in the wee hours, I’m disoriented.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

For Workers on Alaska’s North Slope, You “Sleep When You’re Dead”

|
By Jordan McGillis
| City Journal Verified
It’s past midnight in June, 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle. As I walk around Deadhorse, Alaska, the settlement adjacent to the Prudhoe Bay oil field on the Arctic Coast, I grasp for the first time how sharp the Earth’s axial tilt really is. Up here, on the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope, the summer sun dances in an unending ellipse. By the time of my solstice visit, it hasn’t dropped below the horizon for five weeks.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Alaska, the Minerals Frontier

|
By Jordan McGillis
| National Review Verified
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 306 licensed articles (328 Total)