Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Reason in the Middle category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. Reason is a monthly libertarian magazine founded in 1968. It is published by the Reason Foundation, a non-profit organization, and is based in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Reason according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 36.26

Bias: 4.87

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart^®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL	Bias	Reliability
Abolish the National Park Service	7	35
Trump Has No Discernible Interest in Fiscal Responsibility	3.33	37
What Happens When FEMA Buys Your House?	2.33	39
Immigration Is Better Than Industrial Policy	-11.67	32
Georgia A.G. Drops Frivolous Money Laundering Charges Against Cop City Bail Fund	0	38.33
The Owner of Three Mile Island Is Turning the Nuclear Power Plant Back on to Fuel Microsoft's AI Operations	7.33	34.67
Kamala Harris Is Not an Ideas Candidate	7.67	34
'Yeah, I'm a "Perv" Too!'	2	33.33
How Post-Arrest DNA Swabs Threaten Innocent People's Privacy	-2.33	37
Trump's Proposals Would Add $5.8 Trillion to the Deficit	-1.33	43.33
A Revised Trump Indictment Tries To Overcome the 'Presumption' of Presidential Immunity	-4	40.33
John Stossel Fact Checks RFK Jr.	0.67	35.67
Idaho Child Care Program Faces $16 Million Deficit as Bureaucrats Overextend Benefits	6.33	37.33
Scalia, Trump's Favorite SCOTUS Justice, Agreed Flag Burning Is Free Speech	-19	27.67
J.D. Vance Says Childless Americans Should Pay Higher Taxes. They Already Do.	-13.67	29.33
California Forever, Forever	2.33	45.33
Paris Spent $1.5 Billion Cleaning Poop Out of the Seine, and It's Still Too Dirty for Olympic Swimming	0	41.33
Majority of Public Comments Support Descheduling or Legalizing Marijuana	-11.33	32.33
Republicans Confirm Their Plan To Let Social Security Go Insolvent	-0.67	38
It's Time To Reform Environmental Litigation	11.33	32.33
Maybe New Yorkers Don't Want Bowman Progressivism	9.33	34.33
'I Don't Support Mandates From Government': John Stossel Interviews Libertarian Presidential Nominee Chase Oliver	1.67	35.67
Why a Disastrous Biden-Trump Debate Could Be the Best Outcome for America	3.33	32.67
SCOTUS Declines To Punish the Feds for Suppressing Social Media Speech	13.33	33.67
Thou Shalt Not Covet State Power	-3	35.67