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Matt Welch 
Editor in Chief, Reason magazine
Matt Welch is editor in chief of Reason magazine.
From 2006 to 2007, Welch served as assistant editorial pages editor at the Los Angeles Times, shaping and writing editorials, and overseeing the section's web operations.
From 2002 to 2006, Welch worked at Reason as an associate editor and media columnist. From 2002 to 2004, he also wrote a regular "Letter from California" column for Canada's National Post newspaper and contributed to the Online Journalism Review; WorkingForChange.com (for whom he covered Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign); and the now-defunct Los Angeles tech/biz magazine Zone News.
Welch’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, Los Angeles Daily News, Orange County Register, LA Weekly, ESPN.com, Salon.com, Wired, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Daily Star of Beirut, and dozens of other publications.
Before 1998, Welch lived for eight years in Central Europe, where he co-founded the region's first post-communist English-language newspaper, Prognosis, worked as UPI's Slovakia correspondent and managed the Budapest Business Journal.
He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife Emmanuelle.
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- The Cost of Doing Something, Matt Welch, July 1, 2009
- McCain's Iranian Game of Chicken, Matt Welch, June 23, 2009
- Blame the Voters, Pass the Buck, Matt Welch, June 2, 2009
- Why Long Beach Isn't Detroit, Matt Welch, July 2009 Print Edition
- California's Silent Big Spenders, Matt Welch, May 28, 2009
- Obama Loses His "Cool", Matt Welch, June 2009 Print Edition
- Hiking in Hoboken, Matt Welch, June 2009 Print Edition
- Obama's Vision Deficit, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, April 29, 2009
- Ink-Stained Retch, Matt Welch, April 15, 2009
- The Chapter 11 Solution, Matt Welch, April 3, 2009
- Obama's Double-Talk, Matt Welch, May 2009 Print Edition
- Obama's Unkeepable AIG Promise, Matt Welch, March 19, 2009
- The Liberaltarian Jackalope, Matt Welch, April 2009 Print Edition
- Subprime Nation, Matt Welch, April 2009 Print Edition
- The Two Faces of Barack Obama, Matt Welch, February 25, 2009
- Your Money or Your Democracy, Matt Welch, March 2009 Print Edition
- Who's Harassed Now?, Matt Welch, March 2009 Print Edition
- 'I Think the SEC Was Distracted', Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, March 2009 Print Edition
- Schwarzenegger's Failure, Matt Welch, February 2009 Print Edition
- Bailing Out One of the 20th Century's Best Business Models, Matt Welch, January 8, 2009
- Obama's Numbers, Matt Welch, January 2009 Print Edition
- Bridging Faiths, Matt Welch, December 2, 2008
- "Would I Stay True if...My Personal Ambitions Seemed... Achievable?", Matt Welch, November 4, 2008
- Back to the Barricades, Matt Welch, December 2008 Print Edition
- The Libertarian Moment, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, December 2008 Print Edition
- McCain Really is a Hero, Matt Welch, October 20, 2008
- Why John McCain Likes Being the Underdog, Matt Welch, October 13, 2008
- McCain's Last Best Hope, Matt Welch, October 10, 2008
- The Winner of Last Night's Debate? Washington, Matt Welch, October 8, 2008
- Obama or McCain: Who's performing better?, Matt Welch, October 7, 2008
- Scared Straight, Matt Welch, November 2008 Print Edition
- The Dangerous Failure of McCain-Feingold, Matt Welch, November 2008 Print Edition
- 30 Years of Dallas, Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch, November 2008 Print Edition
- Illegal Editor, Matt Welch, October 2008 Print Edition
- Irresponsible Predictions, Matt Welch, September 22, 2008
- The Libertarian Case for McCain, Matt Welch, September 18, 2008
- John McCain and the Republican Convention, Matt Welch, September 8, 2008
- Wayne Allyn Root's Million-Dollar Challenge, Matt Welch, September 5, 2008
- What's So Republican About These Economics, Matt Welch, September 4, 2008
- Service Charges, Matt Welch, September 3, 2008
- McCain's Interventionist Schizophrenia, Matt Welch, September 2, 2008
- Whatever it Takes, Matt Welch, September 1, 2008
- All We Are Saying Is, Make Smarter War, Matt Welch, August 27, 2008
- McCain's Georgian Hyperbole, Matt Welch, August 18, 2008
- My Olympic Mis-Education, Matt Welch, August 14, 2008
- Labor's Pains, Matt Welch, August 1, 2008
- The Uses of Hyperbole, Matt Welch, August/September 2008 Print Edition
- "Government Pirates", Matt Welch, July 21, 2008
- The Golden Collapse, Matt Welch, July 2008 Print Edition
- America Get Your Guns, Megan McArdle and Matt Welch, June 30, 2008