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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.
Contributions | Hit & Run Posts
- No Depression?, Matt Welch, December 2, 2008, 9:26am
- "Unlike bank bailouts and auto loan guarantees, state and local aid does not rely on the business strategies of traumatized corporate executives to be effective", Matt Welch, December 2, 2008, 8:17am
- "But what about those of us in the nonprofit world? Where's our bailout?", Matt Welch, December 1, 2008, 11:39am
- $8.5 Trillion and Counting, Matt Welch, December 1, 2008, 10:54am
- Where Ano Means Yes, Matt Welch, November 26, 2008, 12:51pm
- "This is how you clowns are spending EIGHTY BILLION DOLLARS of taxpayer money, whining to comedy blogs?", Matt Welch, November 25, 2008, 6:45pm
- At What Price Is Saving a House, When the Savior Might Break the No-Siren Rule?, Matt Welch, November 24, 2008, 4:23pm
- The Voodooest Economics of Them All, Matt Welch, November 24, 2008, 11:00am
- What Happens When You Decline Pre-Reeducation, Matt Welch, November 21, 2008, 6:21pm
- Serve the Servants, Matt Welch, November 19, 2008, 5:52pm
- House Negro, Please, Matt Welch, November 19, 2008, 12:32pm
- I Had a Dream, I Had an Awesome Dream, Matt Welch, November 19, 2008, 12:00pm
- The Anti-Socialist Wealth Redistributors, Matt Welch, November 17, 2008, 10:50am
- Now He Tells Us, Matt Welch, November 10, 2008, 4:21pm
- The Palin Wars, Matt Welch, November 10, 2008, 10:02am
- Who Shall They Give my Money to Next!, Matt Welch, November 7, 2008, 5:39pm
- "Today there is a categorical difference between what Republicans stand for and the principles of individual freedom", Matt Welch, November 7, 2008, 3:46pm
- And the
BailoutRescue Goes on, Matt Welch, November 7, 2008, 9:45am - McCain's Classy Concession, Matt Welch, November 5, 2008, 2:12am
- Re-Districting, Matt Welch, November 5, 2008, 1:24am
- How Ya Votin', Libertarian?, Matt Welch, November 4, 2008, 9:52am
- Lords of Undiscipline, Matt Welch, October 31, 2008, 11:16am
- I Know This Man, I've Worked With This Man. Your Guess, Sir, Is as Good as Mine, Matt Welch, October 31, 2008, 9:49am
- I'm Not Going to Disneyland!, Matt Welch, October 31, 2008, 9:24am
- "The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression", Matt Welch, October 30, 2008, 1:57pm
- Republicans Drank Whiskey Neat, Matt Welch, October 30, 2008, 9:51am
- Staff Vote 4 Dummies (Get it??), Matt Welch, October 29, 2008, 4:34pm
- Joe the Muzzled, Matt Welch, October 29, 2008, 2:20pm
- Get Shortage, Matt Welch, October 29, 2008, 9:43am
- Tick, Tick, Tick, Matt Welch, October 28, 2008, 11:21am
- But Then You Came to My
BailoutRescue, Matt Welch, October 28, 2008, 10:46am - Is it Too Late for a Do-Over?, Matt Welch, October 27, 2008, 11:12pm
- You Will Be Mine You Will Be Mine, All Mine, Matt Welch, October 27, 2008, 10:00am
- If by "Hero" You Mean Traitor, Matt Welch, October 21, 2008, 11:04pm
- "Death" Throws, Matt Welch, October 21, 2008, 11:12am
- The Eternal Death of Libertarianism, Matt Welch, October 20, 2008, 4:53pm
- Nothing "Super" About This Majority, Matt Welch, October 17, 2008, 10:34am
- They Listened to Me! Run for Your Lives!, Matt Welch, October 14, 2008, 12:12pm
- Bush: Why My "Unprecedented and Aggressive" Nationalization Is Necessary, Matt Welch, October 14, 2008, 10:49am
- Podcast on McCain, Bailouts, and the Late Cathy Seipp, Matt Welch, October 14, 2008, 9:41am
- Girls Gone
WildKilled, Matt Welch, October 13, 2008, 11:02am - Bush: Don't Panic! At Least Not This Week, Anyway, Matt Welch, October 10, 2008, 2:00pm
- I Would Just Like to Point out That John McCain Tonight Proposed Nationalizing All Bad Mortgages, Matt Welch, October 8, 2008, 12:38am
- We're Not in 2000 Anymore, Toto, Matt Welch, October 6, 2008, 9:52am
- Not Just Wall Street, but Hollywood Blvd., too, Matt Welch, October 2, 2008, 1:27pm
- Establishmentarian Watch, Matt Welch, October 2, 2008, 10:45am
- The Senate Caves, 74-25, Matt Welch, October 1, 2008, 10:51pm
- Reason Writers Around Town, Matt Welch, October 1, 2008, 6:26pm
- Panic, Damn You!, Matt Welch, October 1, 2008, 11:46am
- That Elusive "Permanent Governing Majority", Matt Welch, September 30, 2008, 3:39pm