This is a guest note by Leo Hindery, Jr. Hindery is Chairman of the US Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Currently an investor in media companies, he is the former CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), Liberty Media and their successor AT&T Broadband.

I have been chatting up Pete Dominick on his Sirius/XM program Stand up with Pete Dominick for a long time, but I never had any idea what the guy looked like. Same with Rachel Maddow for years until we finally met at the Democratic National Convention.

A handful of newly elected Republican US Senators have written to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid trying to undo the Constitutional authority of other elected incumbent US Senators. That’s right.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Richard Lugar is on fire — telling his colleagues that the failure to ratify START will be enormously consequential to the ‘real’ national security interests of the United States.

Some of the fellows and the author at Frida Kahlo’s Blue House in Mexico City. This is a guest post by Andres Martinez, who directs the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program at the New America Foundation. A group of New America Foundation Bernard L.

This is a guest post by Mark Leon Goldberg, a correspondent for UN Dispatch, who is attending the NATO Summit. This post was written for UN Dispatch and The Washington Note. Among many previous avocations, Goldberg used to work with Steve Clemons at the New America Foundation.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) needs to read up on some things — like learn some facts and stuff. . .and use those facts to stop illegals from taking land that is not theirs.

This is a pretty amazing, articulate, important plea by a young student to a local school board defending his teacher Jay McDowell, disciplined for actions he took to prevent anti-gay bullying at Howell High School in Howell, Michigan. The “content of character” of this young man is off the charts.

National Public Radio’s Ari Shapiro did a great piece this morning taking a look at the traditional and new in President Obama’s foreign policy attentions.