Shirish V. Date was born in Pune, India, in 1964, moving to the United States three years later. He grew up in Waltham, Mass., Rochester, N.Y., and Anaheim, Calif., before graduating with a bachelor's in political science from Stanford University in 1985. Date has won awards for his journalism, including a 2003 series exposing fraud and abuse in -- and prompting criminal investigations of -- Governor Jeb Bush's prized school voucher programs. Dáte is a senior White House correspondent at HuffPost. His new work, The Useful Idiot, captures Trump's management of the coronavirus pandemic.
