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.
A record number of background checks for firearm sales were conducted in 2020 -- and unlike most previous surges of gun-buying, the checks were just as concentrated in Democratic states as Republican ones, according to new research.Researchers from universities including Stanford and Harvard have published new evidence that the order in which candidates are listed on ballots can change how people vote — and the effect is so strong that they claim it likely would have changed the outcomes of presidential elections in 2000 and 2016.
The amount of South American land impacted by humans skyrocketed 60% from 1985 to 2018, and an area the size of Spain has been cleared by humans but is not being used for any discernible economic purpose, according to new research using satellite images and machine learning technology.
Proponents of the four-day workweek scored a victory earlier this year when the Spanish government revealed plans to fund a trial of the long-debated policy as soon as this fall.
Donald Trump's election and decision to remove the U.S. from the Paris Agreement both paradoxically led to significantly lower share prices for oil and gas companies, according to new research in a leading financial journal, while Joe Biden's presidency has so far been great for fossil fuel stocks.
Incumbent judges levy harsher sentences when they are in a competitive re-election campaign, but in states where competition for judgeships is low this does not come to the forefront.Adding the costs of greenhouse gas removal to food prices through taxes can help combat climate change, but would also lead to considerable increases in food prices that would disproportionately impact poor countries, researchers in Switzerland found in a paper published Wednesday.
Academic freedom declined around the world in 2020, driven in part by crackdowns in Hong Kong, Belarus and Sri Lanka, according to new data shared on Thursday by a group of European political scientists and watchdogs who say the ability to research and express opinions freely is threatened on campuses across the globe.
Significantly less crime is reported around baseball stadiums when fans have time to sober up after alcohol sales are stopped at the end of the seventh inning, according to new work by researchers who used nearly a decade of data from Philadelphia.
The one-third of adult Americans who have bachelor’s degrees have been living progressively longer over the past three decades, while the two-thirds without bachelor’s degrees have been dying younger since 2010, according to new research by two Princeton University economists who first sounded the alarm on “Deaths of Despair.”
Black people are increasingly underrepresented in U.S. trials for cancer treatments, a disparity that could lead to the approval of unsafe or ineffective drugs, according to new research published Monday.
About 17% of all food produced around the world is wasted, a drain on resources that contributes significantly to climate change, United Nations researchers revealed Monday in what the organization called the most comprehensive study of global food waste to date.