👤 Matt Welch

7 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
7
2026-09-14 – 2026-10-28
Claims per article
15
104 extracted in total
Hedged claims
6%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
2,619
characters
Writes for Reason.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
57%
Education
14%
Entertainment
14%
Technology
14%
Most-tagged topics
ReasonCaliforniaRepublicansThe Reason RoundtableAmericanAmericansCaliforniansEurasian

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.10 (centre).

More from this journalist

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2026-10-09 · Reason · Politics
Live Reason Roundtable 10th Anniversary Show!
2 outlets covered this event
2026-10-28 · Reason · Education
L.A. Teachers Union Flunks Math, Blames Billionaires
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-07 · Reason · Politics
Ten Years of The Reason Roundtable
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans right
2026-10-06 · Reason · Politics
Live Reason Roundtable 10th Anniversary Show!
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-10-02 · Reason · Entertainment
Review: The Fugitive Owl Who Captured New York's Attention
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-28 · Reason · Politics
Trump's Iran War Is Losing With Everyone (Even Republicans)
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-14 · Reason
Is AI Really an Existential Threat?
🔮 This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss whether warnings from leading artificial intelligence companies that AI could pose an existential threat should be taken seriously. assertive
2026-09-28 · Reason
Trump's Iran War Is Losing With Everyone (Even Republicans)
🔮 The panelists also debate whether artificial intelligence could make government less important in people's lives and whether existing laws are sufficient to deal with the risks posed by rapidly developing AI. assertive
2026-10-07 · Reason
Ten Years of The Reason Roundtable
🔮 I wasn't there that day, so there was no one to blurt out "BAD!" before Gillespie could finish his sentence, but two of our other Reason colleagues were, including a croaky-throated Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward ("I think on balance I'm gonna say bad, but I also think it is a total wild card"), so therefore we have carbon-dated this particular episode of what was then the Reason Podcast as the official beginning of what is now known 'round the audio world as The Reason Roundtable. assertive
2026-10-28 · Reason
L.A. Teachers Union Flunks Math, Blames Billionaires
🔮 Californians facing not one but two wealth-tax initiatives on next week's ballot may well be asking themselves how all these tens of billions of forcibly extracted dollars will be spent. assertive
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