I may occasionally check in while on vacation, but TWN readers are in for a treat this week. When I travel, I try to invite a diverse group to consider blogging about whatever moves them, in a diverse set of areas.

Below you will find a list of former government officials, historians, journalists, dramatists, thinkers, political strategists. This is a partial list. Some may not follow through. Others will certainly appear whom I didn't have the opportunity to include on this roster.

I can't link all of them or even tell you what they all do right now as I'm rushing to a meeting. Enjoy this diverse week of perspectives.

Some of the Guest Bloggers for The Washington Note:

Nir Rosen, New America Foundation

Former Senator Gary Hart, University of Colorado

Julia Sweig, Council on Foreign Relations

Leo Hindery, Cable Czar and author, It Takes a CEO

Mark Schmitt, New America Foundation

Peter Trubowitz, University of Texas/Austin

Charles Kupchan, Georgetown University

Alex Steffler, brilliant student in Latin America, GW University

Joe Trippi, political strategist and web organizing guru

Arianna Huffington, Huffpost.com and excellent truth-teller

Trevor Potter, Caplin & Drysdale and Former Chairman of the Federal Elections Commission

Chuck Pena, Coalition for a Realtistic Foreign Policy and MSNBC

Marcus Noland, Institute for International Economics

Flynt Leverett, Former Bush Administration National Security Council Official and Brookings Institution

Darci Tucker, historical dramatist and interpreter

Yosri Fouda/Giles Trendle, Al Jazeera London

Brent Budowsky, former national security official

Laura Rozen, www.WarandPiece.com

Scott Paul, Citizens for Global Solutions

Annie Bardach, The Media Project, UC Santa Barbara and journalist

Mark Goldberg, The American Prospect

Jim Pinkerton, Newsday, Fox News Channel, and New America Foundation

Robert Schlesinger, freelance journalist

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation

James Zogby, Arab American Institute

Ted Widmer, Brown University and Clinton Speech Writer

Clyde Prestowitz, Economic Strategy Institute

Jeffrey Trammell, President of Trammell & Co.; Democratic party strategist and former Sr. Advisor to Al Gore

Cem Oezdemir, Member/Germany, European Parliament

Jeffrey Winters (in Jakarta), Northwestern University

Julian Sanchez, Reason Magazine

Merrill Goozner, former Washington Bureau Chief, Chicago Tribune and blogger at GoozNews

Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Washington Bureau Chief, Die Zeit

Rich Tafel, minister and organizational consultant; former President, Log Cabin Republicans

Mark Lagon, Department of State (still being cleared -- but hope he can)

Gara LaMarche, Open Society Institute and eclectic blogger at Garalog

The Hon. Dave McCurdy, President, Electronic Industries Alliance and former Member of Congress

Jeff Legro, University of Virginia

007, anonymous intelligence type -- very cool and very smart

Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch

Richard Weitz, Hudson Institute

Scott McConnell, Editor in Chief, The American Conservative

Johanna Mendelson Forman, CSIS

Anatol Lieven, New America Foundation

Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Harvard University

Jeremy Kahn, The New Republic

Matt Stoller, MyDD.com

Garance Franke-Rupta, The American Prospect

Will Gartshore, Stage Actor; Winner of the 2006 Helen Hayes Award; and blogger at The Itinerant Canuck

Edith Terry, Managing Director, Cotton Tree Productions (Hong Kong) and journalist

Karen Greenberg, Executive Director, Center on Law & Security, New York University; co-editor, The Torture Papers and novelist

Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University

Jon Wolfsthal, Non-proliferation wunderkind, CSIS

Thanks to all. Rushing off now.

There will be others, one of whom I hope will be George Soros who may blog about his new book coming out June 12th titled The Age of Fallibility: Consequences of the War on Terror.

Be nice to Dave Meyer.

-- Steve Clemons