Theo Wayt
Senior Reporter, Business & Economics and Social Sciences
Theo Wayt, based in New Orleans, is the senior reporter for Business & Economics and Social Sciences for The Academic Times. He has also reported for the Associated Press, NBC News, the New York Post, Vice, Gothamist and Business Insider, covering topics like finance, politics and labor. He graduated from New York University in 2020.
Americans from across the political spectrum support policies designed to release many incarcerated people from prison early, new research shows.
Americans who came of age and learned to drive during the oil crises of the 1970s still logged significantly fewer miles on the road in the year 2000, according to new research from economists at the U.S. Federal Reserve and University of Pennsylvania.
Single-family homes in U.S. floodplains are overvalued by a total of $43.8 billion, new research shows, highlighting the unsustainability of real estate markets in the face of escalating climate change.
Americans' use of kratom, a plant-based drug often promoted as an alternative to opioids that has been banned in several states, is rare overall but more common among those who use other drugs, according to research published Thursday.
Racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. are consistently exposed to more deadly fine particulate air pollution on average than white people, a disparity that is present across virtually all regions and income levels, research published Wednesday shows.
Efforts to reduce climate change in line with Paris Agreement goals could push an additional 50 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 unless widespread economic redistribution efforts are implemented, according to new research.
Countries with governments that favor Christianity cause their citizens to become less attached to their faith and, eventually, lead to a decline in the percentage of the population that identifies as Christian, two social science researchers have suggested, based on an analysis of 166 countries.
One in five people who purchased an electric vehicle in California later abandoned the technology, largely because of charging-related hassles, according to a first-of-its kind study that suggests more work is necessary to bring electric vehicles to the mass market.
Mass incarceration in Central and South America in recent decades has driven an escalating tuberculosis crisis within prisons, threatening progress against one of the world's deadliest diseases, according to new research.
Living in an area with a television news station owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the U.S.'s second-largest local TV company, makes viewers less likely to vote for Democratic presidential candidates and lowers their approval of Democratic presidents, according to new research.
After interviewers evaluate one job candidate generously, they tend to be harsher toward subsequent applicants, according to a new paper by an international group of researchers.
One in five Americans suffer from chronic pain, limiting their daily function and causing nearly $300 billion in lost productivity each year, according to new work by Harvard University researchers.