At one time editor of the editorial page of The Dallas Times Herald, she has been a regular commentator on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (now the PBS NewsHour) and All Things Considered. Lee is a senior fellow at the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies as well as the Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture and serves on the board of the American Security Project and the David Boren School of International Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Once on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Council on Germany, she is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the InterAmerican Dialogue.